Editing Medus (section)

=== Witch's scheme ===
When Medea came back to her native land in her chariot with the yoked dragons, she falsely impersonated a priestess of [[Artemis]] before the king. She said she could make atonement for the plague to appease the gods and she heard from the king that a supposed Hippotes was held in custody. Thinking that the alleged Corinthian prince had come to avenge the injury to his father (i.e. Creon), Medea unknowingly conspired and betrayed her son Medus. For she persuaded the king that he was not Hippotes, but Medus, sent by his father to dispatch the king, and begged that he be handed over to her to be killed as a sacrifice, convinced that he was Hippotes. So when Medus was brought out to pay for his deceit by death, Medea saw that things were otherwise than she had thought, she said she wished to talk with him which Perses agreed. Subsequently, Medea gave Medus a sword and bade him avenge the wrongs to his grandfather Aeëtes, and Medus killed Perses, and gained his grandfather's kingdom.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica'' 4.56.1; Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' 27</ref> In some accounts, the king was stabbed to death by Medea herself using the sacrificial blade.<ref>Apollodorus, 1.9.28</ref> Another version of the myth states that Medea restored her father Aeëtes to the throne of Colchis after being deposed by Perses.<ref>Apollodorus, 1.9.28; Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica'' 4.56.1</ref>