sentences:  To free him, Medea impersonated a priestess and demanded he be given to her for sacrifice to appease the gods, as a plague was at the time being visited upon Colchis.Perses agreed, and was subsequently killed by the sacrificial blade in the hands of either Medus or his mother.Medus thus came to rule, and when he conquered a neighboring land it was named Media in honor of either Medus or Medea.