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…showed last 75 words of 751 total…identify with today and for many more years to come. Medea was a strong fearless woman who was pushed over the edge by broken oaths; she sacrificed her life for Jason and in turn he dishonored her. Medea was heroic for standing up for herself, extreme, but this was the kind of woman she was; but the barbaric slaying of her children, by her own hand, keeps her from being known as a true heroine.