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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Medea's Dream of Destroying Fire

Medea sees one of Jason's messengers running towards her and she knows what's finally going down. The messenger arrives and tells Medea to run as fast as she can to get away from Corinth immediately. He says that the princess is dead, he says. Her and her father. They've been killed by Medea's poisons. It was painful and disturbing death quote the flesh melted away from her bones like resin from a pine tree. In his effort to save his daughter from this awful death, Crian wrapped himself around her but he became stuck to her melting skin. When he tried, he pulled away at his own now desiccated flesh.

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