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Medea

Medea

Coleridge, E. P.
Euripides

Paperback

Series: Euripides

General Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN10: 1535369566
ISBN13: 9781535369565
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 19 2016
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Medea - Euripides - Translated by E. P. Coleridge Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the barbarian kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by killing Jason's new wife as well as her own children with him, after which she escapes to Athens to start a new life. Considered shocking to his contemporaries, Medea and the suite of plays that it accompanied in the City Dionysia festival came last in the festival that year. Nonetheless the play remained part of the tragedic repertoire, and experienced renewed interest with the emergence of the feminist movement, because of its nuanced and sympathetic portrayal of Medea's struggle to take charge of her own life in a male-dominated world. The play has remained the most frequently performed Greek tragedy through the 20th century.

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