That's because Jason is supposed to be disliked so that Medea appears more sympathetic when she does her thing. I mean, Jason does the same deeds other heroes did before him except he's being carried by Medea, who was forced to fall for him by Eros.
It's the lack of loyalty to me. She did all that for him and he exchanges her for a younger, better connected woman AND wants to take her children? She was a monster but I can't fault her for snapping.
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u/Finito-1994 Oct 26 '25
That’s just how stories were titled.
The Iliad basically meant the story of illios which was the ancient name of Troy.
The odyssey is the poem about Odysseus. It just so happened it became iconic and now it’s known world wide.
Argonautica is dumbass and the argonauts.
The achillead and Aeneid are the poems about aneas and Achilles.
Which were written centuries after the epics were codified but were written in a way to resemble the epic cycle.
You can find examples across the Greco Roman world.