Medea
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The princess of Colchis who gave up everything for Jason — and paid everything back.
She helped him win the Golden Fleece, then turned her back on her father and homeland to follow him.
When Jason moved to marry a foreign princess, she poisoned both the bride and the king.
In Euripides's tragedy she kills even her own two sons and departs in a dragon-drawn chariot — a rare ending in which no punishment ever comes.
SourcesEuripides, Medea