Medea however refuses help from Jason and instead insults him calling him a spineless courage. .
After her encounter with Jason, Medea happens to cross paths with the King of Athens, Corinth. He offers Medea and her children sanctuary with him in Athens during their exile in exchange for a cure for his in ability to produce an heir. After the problematic issue of a place to inhabit is resolved, Medea is once again ready to begin her plot of revenge against Jason and his new bride. A plot which ultimately included the murder of her children by her own hand. Such an extraordinary sacrifice would be but one of Medea's triumphs in her quest to make Jason suffer.
Medea being a most cunning woman tricks Jason into believing that she cares for him still and sympathizes with him and his new wife. She offers his new wife gifts as a form of treaty between the two women and to try to convince the king into allowing the children to stay in Corinth. However, as the story tells the gifts are actually poisoned and kill the princess and her father. They die side by side. Medea then is told of the deaths by a messenger and against the advice of her friends she murders her two children and flees the country, leaving Jason alone and miserable. He is left to think on his wrong doings and the deaths of his loved ones as the play concludes.
Throughout my attempt to research the famous playwright Euripides I have found that many of his fellow playwrights had mixed feelings about his stories. Aristotle himself both praised Euripides calling him "the most tragic poet" and also criticized him for his confusing plotlines and his backward portrayal of what a hero is expected to be. Although, many of my sources agreed that Euripides was a definite father figure to theater of the now, by saying "the simplicity of his dialogue and its closeness to natural human speech patterns paved the way for dramatic realism, while the emotional vacillations in many of his works created our understanding of melodrama.
