Robe of Medea
The poisoned robe and golden diadem Medea sent as bridal gifts to Glauce, Jason's new bride at Corinth; when the princess put them on, the dress burst into flames and consumed her, and her father Creon died as well when he tried to save her. Euripides makes the gifts the engine of his tragedy, delivered by Medea's own children, and the horror lies in how the objects of a wedding, the robe and crown meant to adorn a bride, become instruments of death. The motif recurs in Greek myth, most closely in the robe of Deianeira in Sophocles' Trachiniae, which destroys Heracles, and the poisoned garment