Medea is one of the most fascinating and powerful women in Greek mythology. Medea is a woman of extreme behavior and extreme emotions. For her passionate love for Jason, she sacrificed everything, committing unspeakable acts in his name. But his betrayal transformed passion into rage. Whether divine or mortal, Medea was a priestess, a woman knowledgeable in medicinal plants, a healer, a powerful, numinous and luminous woman. What gives tragic literature its closeness to human nature is that the line between the tragic villain and the tragic hero is extremely thin. A powerful witch, it was Medea's magical help that allowed Jason to overcome all the challenges linked to obtaining the Golden Fleece. . Jason's first task was to harness fire-breathing bulls to a plow and use these animals to sow dragon teeth into the ground as if they were seeds (Bulfinch 122). Medea had given him a magic potion to protect him from the fire eater. bulls, allowing him to harness the bulls. The dragon's teeth produced a multitude of armed men who immediately attacked the man responsible for their existence. In both cases, Jason triumphed, but only with Medea's help. To gain her help, Jason promised marriage and they stood “before the altar of Hecate” and invoked the goddess to “witness her oath” (Bulfinch 122). After obtaining the fleece, Medea turned her back on her father and family and accompanied Jason to Thessaly. Greek myth clearly shows that Medea, who was the niece of the “immortal witch Circe,” would do anything Jason asked of her (Zarins 35). . For example, when Jason asked her to add years to his elderly father's life, she used her magic to make him an active and much younger man (Zarins 35). This story is...... middle of paper ......ision Publications, 2007. Google Book Search. Internet. April 28, 2014.Dexter, Miriam. “Colchian Medea and her circumpontic sisters.” Revision 25.2 (2002): 1-14. EBSCO databases. Internet. April 29, 2014. Federici-Nebbiosi, Susanna. "'Earth, talk to me, Grass, talk to me!' Trauma, tragedy and clash between cultures in Medea. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 16.4 (2006): 465-480. EBSCO Internet databases. Melis, Karin "Reading Medea and Hecuba. unconditional." Dialogue and Universalism 15.1/2 (2005): 203-209. EBSCO Databases. Internet. April 29, 2014. Toidze, Otar, Gia Lobzhanidze, Nino Chikhladze and Zaza Khachiperadze. "History of Georgia, Georgian medicine and Medea." World Medical Review 57.2 (2011): 64-66. EBSCO Databases. Internet. April 29, 2014. Zarins, Kim. "Jason vs. Medea." Calliope 23.9 (2013): 35-47. EBSCO Databases .Web. April 29 2014.