There are many famous revenge stories in #GreekMythology but none so impressive to young Aimée as Euripides' version of #Medea. In the Argonautika, #Hera asks #Aphrodite to make Medea fall in love with Iason to ensure her aid to obtain the golden fleece. After betraying her own family, Medea leaves with the Argonauts, helping them not only with the golden fleece but also with Talos, the bronze automaton built by #Hephaistos to protect the island of #Crete.
"Go on, play the bridegroom!" Medea tells Iason, "The gods will see to it one day you'll regret the match you have made."
After arranging for her exile in Athens, #Medea poisons a golden robe, an heirloom from her grandfather #Helios, and sends her children to present it to Glauke as a gift, allegedly in hopes to lift their exile but in reality to enact vicious revenge on Iason's new bride: when the Glauke puts on the radiant robe, the poison kills her and her father Kreon who tries to save her.
Meet a Greek silver tetradrachm with the head of #Helios or #Apollon.
The words [ΘΕΟΔΟ]ΤΟΣ / ΕΠΟΕΙ can be deciphered left of the beautiful god, "Theodotos made this".
🏛️ Dated ca. 375-360 BCE, Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin