Iolcos
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
my native land Iolcos · turrets of Iolcos
in the texts
Alcestis
Alcestis's native city, addressed by her in farewell as she dies.
O earth, O sheltering roof, and ye my maiden chambers in my native land Iolcos!
Medea
Thessalian city ruled by Pelias, where Medea and Jason lived after leaving Colchis and where Pelias was killed.
Father and home of my free will I left and came with thee to Iolcos,’neath Pelion’s hills, for my love was stronger than my prudence.
for then would my own mistress Medea never have sailed to the turrets of Iolcos, her soul with love for Jason smitten, nor would she have beguiled the daughters of Pelias to slay their father and come to live here in the land of Corinth with her husband and children, where her exile found favour with the citizens to whose land she had come, and in all things of her own accord was she at one with J …