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Eugène Delacroix: Medea About to Kill Her Children (Medée furieuse) Medea About to Kill Her Children (Medée furieuse), oil on canvas by Eugène Delacroix, 1838; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Medea

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Medea, in Greek mythology, an enchantress who helped Jason, leader of the Argonauts, to obtain the Golden Fleece from her father, King Aeëtes of Colchis. She was of divine descent and had the gift of prophecy. She married Jason and used her magic powers and advice to help him. In one version of the story, when they flee and are pursued by Aeëtes, Jason, in conspiracy with Medea, cuts her brother Apsyrtus to pieces and...

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