Definitions for Medea
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1. Medeanoun

   (Greek mythology) a princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father

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1. Medeanoun

   An enchantress (in Greek mythology) who helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece

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1. medea

   The Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis (MEDEA) was a post-Cold-War project of the intelligence community of the United States to leverage US global surveillance records and capabilities for the scientific study of climate change. In 1992, at the behest of the Council on Foreign Relations and then-Senator Al Gore and with the direction of Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates, the Environmental Task Force (ETF) was formed, which in 1993 became MEDEA. More than 860,000 historical satellite photographs were analyzed by a group of dozens of scientists and new satellite photographs were captured and declassified.The program was shut down early in the George W. Bush administration, re-started in 2010 under the Obama administration, and concluded in 2015.

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1. medea

   Medea, in Greek mythology, is a sorceress and the daughter of the King of Colchis. She is notably the central character in Euripides' play "Medea", where she is portrayed as a powerful, complex woman, capable of terrible revenge when she is wronged by her husband Jason. Her story is an integral part of the myth of Jason and the Argonauts. Over time, the character of Medea has frequently been depicted in literature and arts, often symbolizing the fury and destructive potential of a wronged woman.

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1. Medea

   In Greek mythology, Medea was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce. The play tells about how Medea avenges her husband's betrayal. The myths involving Jason have been interpreted by specialists as part of a class of myths that tell how the Hellenes of the distant heroic age, before the Trojan War, faced the challenges of the pre-Greek "Pelasgian" cultures of mainland Greece, the Aegean and Anatolia. Jason, Perseus, Theseus, and above all Heracles, are all "liminal" figures, poised on the threshold between the old world of shamans, chthonic earth deities, and the new Bronze Age Greek ways. Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, a myth known best from a late literary version worked up by Apollonius of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC and called the Argonautica. However, for all its self-consciousness and researched archaic vocabulary, the late epic was based on very old, scattered materials. Medea is known in most stories as an enchantress and is often depicted as being a priestess of the goddess Hecate or a witch. The myth of Jason and Medea is very old, originally written around the time Hesiod wrote the Theogony. It was known to the composer of the Little Iliad, part of the Epic Cycle.

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1. Medea

   a famous sorceress of Greek legend, daughter of Æëtes, king of Colchis, by whose aid Jason (q. v.) accomplished the object of his expedition, and acquired the Golden Fleece, and who accompanied him back to Greece as his wife; by her art she restored the youth of Eson, the father of her husband, but the latter having abandoned her she avenged herself on him by putting the children she had by him to death; the art she possessed was that of making old people young again by first chopping them in pieces and then boiling them in a caldron.

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1. Medea

   (Mede′a). Wife of Jason, chief of the Argonauts. To punish her husband for infidelity, Medea killed two of her children in their father’s presence. She was a great sorceress.

   “Now to Medaea’s dragons fix my reins.” (F. Lewis.)

   “Let not Medea draw her murdering knife, And spill her children’s blood upon the stage.” (Lord Roscommon.)

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Medea in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

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   The numerical value of Medea in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Medea
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Medea
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Medea
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Medea
7. ^ Mythology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42474/pg42474-images.html#:~:text=Medea