Medea

Daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis in Greek mythology

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2018 A main character in Pat Barker's novel The Silence of the Girls, much of which is narrated by his slave Briseis.
2012 Appears as the Rider of Red in the light novel series Fate/Apocrypha.
2011 Main character in Madeline Miller's debut novel The Song of Achilles, which explores his relationship with Patroclus and won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction.

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