Kreōn (King of Corinth)

…When they came to Iolcus, where Aisōn, the father of Jason, had been forced to commit suicide by Pelias, she showed Pelias' daughters how to rejuvenate themselves by boiling a sheep in a pot, and made them kill their father in the same way. They fled to Corinth, where they had two children, but when Jason married the daughter of King Kreōn, she killed the king and his daughter, as well as her own son, and fled to Aegeus, the king of Athens. There, as the wife of Aegeus, she tried to poison the prince Theseus, but failed, and fled back to Asia with her only son, Medus, who was born to the king. …

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…二人がイオルコスに来てみると，イアソンの父アイソンAisōnはペリアスのために自殺させられていたので，彼女はペリアスの娘たちに羊を釜ゆでにして若返らせて見せ，同じ方法で娘たちに父王を殺させた。二人はコリントスへ逃げ，同地で2児をもうけたが，イアソンが王クレオンKreōnの娘を新妻に迎えたため，彼女は王と王女，さらにはわが子をも殺してアテナイ王アイゲウスのもとに逃れた。ここでアイゲウスの妃となった彼女は王子テセウスを毒殺しようとして果たさず，王との間にできた一子メドスMēdosを連れてアジアへ逃げ帰った。…

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