By: SANDRA BUSATTA
Medea is generally known as a murderous witch due to hostile Athenian propaganda, but
myth, iconography and linguistics allow us to suggest a new Medea, not only an agricultural
goddess, but also a goddess of fermentation and wine, connected with Dionysus as well as Greek
traditions about the diffusion of viticulture. This Medea, however, is mostly centred in the
Corinthian tradition and especially in the Heraion of Perachora.
