Medea

[mi-dee-uh]

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noun

Classical Mythology.��a sorceress, daughter of Aeëtes and wife of Jason, whom she assisted in obtaining the Golden Fleece: when Jason deserted her, she killed their children.
(italics)��a tragedy (431 b.c.) by Euripides.

Medea

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noun

Greek myth a princess of Colchis, who assisted Jason in obtaining the Golden Fleece from her father

Medea

In classical mythology, a sorceress who fell in love with Jason and helped him obtain the Golden Fleece. When Jason abandoned her to marry another woman, she took revenge by brutally murdering his young bride as well as the children she had borne him.

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Yet as she was performing “Medea” that night, a sinus infection led Callas’s voice to waver in parts, though she sang all the way to the end, and still managed to draw some press acclaim.

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