Medea holds her squirming children with one hand and a dagger with the other. Geoffroy’s print reproduces a painting by the artist Eugène Delacroix that shows the disturbing moment before she kills her children. This horrific scene occurs after her husband Jason deserts her for another woman. Medea kills their children to seek justice for her sacrifices and abandonment. Medea, the subject of a 5th-century BCE play by Euripides, is a complicated heroine. She is empowered with typically male traits, like intelligence and a sense of vengeance, and acts contrary to societal expectations for women.