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PHERECYDES (6TH CENTURY BCE)
- Absyrtus, who was a
baby, was taken aboard the Argo by Medea,
on the advice of Jason, and then killed
and dismembered. His fragments were
scattered upon the sea so that their
collection might delay the pursuit of
Aeetes.
SOPHOCLES (5TH CENTURY
BCE)
- Sophocles in the
Colchians says that the child of
Aeetes was slaughtered in the
palace.
EURIPIDES (5TH CENTURY
BCE)
- Euripides
(Medea, line 1334) says that Medea
slew her brother at the hearth of the
palace.
APOLLONIUS OF
RHODES
- Apsyrtus, left
behind by Jason and Medea, pursued them
with a band of Colchians, and, overtaking
them, was treacherously slain by Jason,
with the connivance of Medea, in an island
of the Danube.
APOLLODORUS
- "When Aeetes
discovered the daring deeds done by Medea,
he started off in pursuit of the ship; but
when she saw him near, Medea murdered her
brother and cutting him limb from limb
threw the pieces into the deep. Gathering
the child's limbs, Aeetes fell behind in
the pursuit; wherefore he turned back,
and, having buried the rescued limbs of
his child, he called the place
Tomi."
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