Jason
Greek mythology · hero · the quest, oath-breaking
Leader of the Argonauts on the quest for the Golden Fleece, which he won only through Medea's magic and betrayed love. He broke his oath to her at Corinth and lost everything, killed at last, in one tradition, by the rotting stern of his own famous ship.
Stories
The Quest for the Golden Fleece
Jason sails the Argo to the world's edge with Orpheus's lyre keeping the rowers' time. Eros's arrow makes the sorceress Medea love him; she tames the bronze bulls, drugs the sleepless dragon, and betrays her own house to hand him the Fleece.
Medea at Corinth
Jason discards Medea for a royal bride, and the woman who gave up everything for him takes everything back. She sends the princess a poisoned crown, kills her own sons to make his line extinct, and departs in the chariot of her grandfather the Sun, beyond punishment.