Topic > The Role of Women in Homer and Medea's Odyssey

After Medea helped Jason acquire the Golden Fleece, Jason and Medea lived happily in Corinth for many years. But one day Jason decided to leave her and marry Creon's daughter leaving Medea alone. He believed that he should marry her to protect their family name and to provide a better life for their children by marrying into the royal family. However he not only left Medea; he also exiled her from the country. Medea decided to take revenge on her husband and everyone close to him, planning to "create corpses of three of his enemies: the father [of his new wife], the girl, and her husband." (Medea 374-375) She decided that if she killed them any other way, she would be captured. So he thought that the best way to kill them was through poison, that “it is better to take the straight path, the one I am most skilled at, and take them out with poison.” (Medea, 384-385) Medea uses “cunning and silence” (Medea 391-392) to carry out these plans. She then uses "cunning and silence" to get revenge on Jason by giving her children a beautiful dress and a gold tiara to give to Jason's new wife. Although Jason did not accept the idea of ​​Medea giving gifts to his new wife, Medea deceives Jason by convincing him that she was wrong about his new wife. Medea tells him: "I apologize, I admit that I was wrong, now I have thought about it again" (Medea, 891-893), which allowed her children to, unknowingly,