Medea (1969 film) follows the plot of the play by Euripides from this point onward, though it takes some liberties with the chronology of events. Jason has two sons by Medea, but he later decides to opt out of his union with her in favor of a marriage to the Corinthian princess Glauce. Enraged, Medea plots revenge against Jason and his new bride and sends Glauce a robe bewitched with magic herbs. Here Pasolini introduces two versions of the destruction of Glauce and her father. The first follows the traditional legend and is possibly a vision of how Medea would like Glauce to
Apaturia (Greek mythology) Apaturia (Greek mythology) Apaturia () was an epithet given to more than one goddess in Greek mythology. The name meant "the deceitful". The name Apaturia was given to the goddess Athena by Aethra, the mother of Theseus, who received a dream from Athena urging her to travel to the island of Sphairia to pour a libation for a charioteer of Pelops. After Aethra awoke she traveled to the island and was there raped by the god Poseidon. Aethra later established there a temple to this aspect of the goddess, and started a custom where brides would offer up their maidenhood