Medea | ✔

tetelestai

thank you for those who finished 'medea'. i know it was a very brief re-cap of the myth, but i enjoyed writing it! so, i thought i'd list some facts for you guys, and also a short playlist for the story:

playlist; (you can listen to it on spotify via the EXTERNAL LINK)

in the house, in a heartbeat, john murphy

everybody's fool, evanescence

running up that hill, placebo

you wear a crown, but you're no king, blessthefall

the devil within, digital daggers

gone, daughtry

facts;

# the tagline on the cover (and the male cover seen in 02) is a line from the play. so is the quote at the beginning! (word credit goes to euripides)

# technically, it was because of aphrodite that medea fell in love with jason. hera was angry that pelias did not pray to her (and gods are so petty), so she asked aphrodite to get medea to fall in love with him (imagine what the myths would turn out like, had gods left mortals alone!)

# colchis is situated (modern time) next to georgia!

# in the myths, she escapes (normally by a chariot) to athens!

# in ancient greek times, her intelligence would be perceived as a masculine trait!

# so in some myths, its the corinthians who murder her children. in others she does it (i mixed it up a little). this is also the case with her brother! in some she does the killing, and in others it's jason who slaughters him

# medea actually bears jason FIVE sons - not three 

# when you read medea telling jason how he dies, that is how he dies!

# to celebrate finishing this story at 2AM i woke my up to kill a huge-ass spider that escaped (fml)

# there are like three versions of how she kills pelias

# when she escapes, she marries aegeus (i left him out, but she basically promises him a son), king of athens but then theseus comes back (aegeus other son) and she tries to poison him but it doesn't work so she takes medus (son with aegeus) and he ends up ruling some country called media

# there are so many versions of this myth and its ending, that you might as well read up some - all include at least one variation!