g of Corinth. Jason is supposed to be more powerful than Medea. Jason is the son-in-law of the king and Medea is an exile. But, as Euripides suggests, what the audience expects doesn't come true at all. It turns out that Medea, at the end, is more powerful than Jason. She kills the princess, the king, and her two children. She can even escape with a chariot to Athens. Jason, on the other hand, cannot do anything to stop Medea. All Jason can do is pray to Zeus to punish Medea. But again, Euripides says that gods don't help mortals with any relationship to the gods, with Medea being lent a chariot from Helios. Even though Medea has committed a murderous crime, a god--Helios-still helps her to escape from Jason and the city of Corinth. For Jason, Zeus does not help him at all, since he doesn't have any relationship with Zeus. Jason is left with all this sorrow. In contrast, in the Odyssey, Homer suggests that gods do help mortals. For example, Athena, the gray-eyed goddess, asks her father, Zeus, to help Odysseus get to his homeland. Homer tells us that gods are what they are supposed to be...
