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⌈ Secret Post #3024 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about relating to her, but I always held a certain admiration for Medea in mythology (moreso than in Euripides - the other myths give a bit of context to her). Once she realised what she wanted, she carried a certain lethal pragmatism about her all the way along, which was at least admirably dedicated and straightforward. From the moment she decided she wanted to go with Jason, if people showed up and threatened what she wanted, she killed them. End of. It started with the Fleece and, by the time it got to Corinth, killing her kids (in the versions where she did so) was only an extension of that mindset, I think.

Depending on the versions, Medea killed or was responsible for the deaths of:

- The dragon guarding the Fleece (to help Jason)
- Her half-brother Apsyrtus (to escape her father with Jason)
- The bronze giant Talos (to allow the Argo to pass Crete)
- Pelias king of Iolcus (to help Jason claim his kingdom/get revenge)
- Glauce and her father King Creon (her for marrying Jason, him as collateral damage)
- her own children (either because they got caught up in her revenge and were killed by others, or because she murdered them herself to hurt Jason)
- almost Theseus, but his dad caught on in time (to keep the throne of Athens for her own son, instead of her new husband's firstborn Theseus)
- her uncle Perses (he'd deposed his brother/her father, so she killed him and reinstated her father)

Basically, anytime anyone presented a problem or a threat to her life, her goals, or the goals of those she loved, she arranged for them to be killed very dead and called it good. By means of poisons, drugs, knives, luring them into traps, tricking other people into killing them, etc. She'd have made a first rate assassin if she'd been doing it for money instead of personal goals. As it was, given the characters of a lot of 'heroes' in Greek myth, she really wasn't much worse than many people in her mythology, and was more efficient than a number of them.

And, okay, most of that was morally reprehensible on her part. I would not want to emulate her in real life. But there is a part of me that does sort of admire her passion, ruthlessness and efficiency, yes.