Medea
Greek mythology · sorceress · devotion inverted, terrible revenge
Granddaughter of Helios who betrayed everything for Jason, homeland, brother, kin, and made his quest succeed. When he discarded her for a princess, she killed the bride with a poisoned crown, and her own sons with her hands, and left in the sun's dragon chariot.
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.