Ch. 5, Page 32.<< Previous || Start Reading || Next >>It was told that s

Ch. 5, Page 32.
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It was told that she has some anger management issues…
(We also would like to state that she is strictly forbidden to access the liquour cabinet. “I don’t care how many lifes you lived and how many relatives you dismembered, little miss, you’re now 12 and you’re now grounded.” cit.)

Notes:
The background image is inspired by a Lucan krater from around 400 b.C., now at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The dressMedea is wearing, tho, is the reconstruction of a traditional garment worn in the Colchis/Caucasian area in ancient times, in the Archaeological Museum of the Republic of Alania, in Vladikavkaz.

Medea was the princess of Colchis -the coastal area of the modern Georgia-, daughter of king Aeetes who was the son of Helios, and thus brother of Circe and of the Minoan Queen Pasifae.
She helped Jason (read as: she did all the work and Jason took credit) in conquering the golden fleece her family had in the garden, guarded by a dragon. She also agreed to help the Argonauts flee from Colchis, on the promise Jason would have married her. Because true love can do everything, included forgive the fact that the blushing bride dismembered her own brother to distract her father and escape.
But nobody’s perfect, and once back to Greece and Jason crowned king, the pair lived happily ever after… Or at least, for few years. Then, Jason remembered he was a douchebag:  he decided to take another wife, younger, Greeker and without a bodycount of her own, informing Medea of the happy news in a flawless way. With an eviction note for her and their two sons.
Medea chose to be elegant about it: she killed the two kids, murdered the second wife while she was at it, and left Corinth on her chariot trained by dragons, in an unmistakable “Fuck you, sir”.
After that, tho, she tried to redeem herself: she fled to Athens, married again with king Aegeus and she really put some effort to free Greece from Theseus. She tried to poison him, but was discovered and exiled all over again. She took a definitive residence in what is now Turkey, in the region that from her took the name Media, and Theseus was now free to go rampant and become the scarcely encomiable hero we all know.