Her name has become a byword for infamy - Medea, Princess of Colchis and securer of the Golden Fleece, is an evil mother who murders her own children. But she is also loyal friend to Herakles, loving wife to Jason, and a strong-spirited adventurer with the Argonauts. A woman both betrayer and betrayed.
Kerry Greenwood moves beyond the black and white image left us by history and tells the strange and sensual story of one of the world's most misunderstood women.
