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  • After she has borne him children, Jason betrays her and betroths himself to Glauce, the daughter of Creon, ruler of Corinth, to seek his own political power.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • The plot largely centers on the protagonist in her struggle with the world, and the revenge she brings about against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman, the princess Glauce.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • After she has borne him children, Jason betrays her and betroths himself to Glauce, the daughter of Creon, ruler of Corinth, to seek his own political power.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • The plot largely centers on the protagonist in her struggle with the world, and the revenge she brings about against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman, the princess Glauce.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Others paled beside her, though tenor Jeffrey Gwaltney (Jason) and soprano Jessica Stavros (Glauce, Jason's new bride), both Young Artists who stepped into their roles for indisposed singers, gave it their best shot.

    Zambello's First Season: Invigorated, Imbalanced Heidi Waleson 2011

  • Athenians with the eighty-two ships from Samos were at the moment lying at Glauce in Mycale, a point where Samos approaches near to the continent; and, seeing the Peloponnesian fleet sailing against them, retired into Samos, not thinking themselves numerically strong enough to stake their all upon a battle.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • The robe and crown have burnt to death Glauce the bride and her father who vainly tried to save her: Jason is coming with all speed to punish the murderess.

    Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

  • But she severely revenged his ingratitude by causing the death of his favourite Glauce, and the ruin of her family.

    The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

  • They removed to Corinth, and here Medéa becoming jealous of Glauce, daughter of Creon, caused her death by means of a poisoned robe.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • But Medea, on the point of being banished from Corinth by Creon, having asked to remain one day, and having obtained her wish, sends to Glauce, by the hands of her sons, presents, as an acknowledgment for the favor, a robe and a golden chaplet, which she puts on and perishes; Creon also having embraced his daughter is destroyed.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

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