Antique Print-MYTHOLOGY-JASON AND MEDEA-Lacroix-1878

Subject: Plate: 'Jason engage sa foi a Medee. Tapisserie des gobelins, d'apres de Troy.' (Jason declaring his love to Medea on a Gobelin after de Troy.) Medea is a Colchian woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce. The play tells about how Medea avenges her husband's betrayal.