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Medea (Ancient Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides based on a myth. It was first performed in 431 BC as part of a trilogy, the other plays of which have not survived.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Euripides, Medea with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1994. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website. Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant ...
Medea about to kill her children (Eugène Delacroix) Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of about 1027 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It is generally considered to be the strongest of his earlier plays. [1] It was written around 50 CE.
Euripides [a] (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most.
Medea in a fresco from Herculaneum. Medea is a direct descendant of the sun god Helios (son of the Titan Hyperion) through her father King Aeëtes of Colchis.According to Hesiod (Theogony 956–962), Helios and the Oceanid Perseis produced two children, Circe and Aeëtes. [5]
Medea kills her son (a scene from Euripides's Medea), Campanian red-figure amphora, c. 330 BC, Louvre (K 300) All surviving works of Greek drama were composed by playwrights from Athens and are written exclusively in the Attic dialect. [26] Choral performances were a common tradition in all Greek city-states. [26]
Médée is a French language opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini.The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman (Nicolas Étienne Framéry) was based on Euripides' tragedy of Medea and Pierre Corneille's play Médée. [1]
Greek Mythology: A Traveller's Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy: Drawings by Lis Watkins Thames & Hudson 2016 Looking at Bacchae: Essays and a translation of Euripides' tragedy: Bloomsbury Academic 2016 Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens: Harvard University Press 2018 Looking at Antigone: Essays and a translation of Sophocles' tragedy