Medea

[ mi-dee-uh ]

noun

1. 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.
2. (italics) a tragedy (431 b.c.) by Euripides.

Medea

/ mɪˈdɪə /

noun

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

Medea

1. 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.

Example Sentences

So who is Medea Benjamin—and why should we listen to her, as Obama said?

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Benjamin, however, had read another version, one in which Medea was simply misunderstood.

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First of all, Medea was not the name she was given at birth, but one that she took “early in life,” as she says.

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Medea Benjamin has spent a lifetime confronting powerful people, so she was a bit baffled when Obama called her a ‘young lady.’

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Political activist Medea Benjamin has spent more than 30 years fighting for peace and social justice around the globe.

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The mad “Medea” is, from the point of view of colour, certainly the chief work of this group.

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She does not pray for a Medea to thrust her into a cauldron of rejuvenescence.

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In his opinion, even Medea and Phdra might become objects of pity rather than abhorrence upon the stage.

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I feel as if I lay hacked in pieces and were being slowly melted in Medea's cauldron.

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When morality is no more taught, religion no longer received, or laws exist, Medea would still terrify us with her infanticide.

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