 The nurse even likens her to a rock of the sea, as Patroclus famously does to Homer’s Achilles in the epic poem "The Iliad".Yet Medea, similarly to Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra, another "woman with a heart of manly counsel" were not admired but portrayed as "Cruella de Vil" type characters; Medea having murdered the King of the Corinthians, his daughter (Jason's new bride) and her two sons for the purpose of taking revenge on Jason.So the declaration "that a noble man ought either to live with honour, or die with honour" does not apply to women.