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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.
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]
Studley made free and easy of Seneca in his translations. To the Agamemnon he added a scene at the close, in which he renarrated the death of Cassandra, the imprisonment of Electra, and the flight of Orestes. To the Medea he prefixed an original prologue and amplified the choruses. He generally expanded on the Latin of the original.
John Fisher wrote a camp musical version of Medea entitled Medea the Musical that re-interpreted the play in light of gay culture. The production was first staged in 1994 in Berkeley, California. [39] Christopher Durang and Wendy Wasserstein co-wrote a sketch version for the Juilliard School's Drama division 25th Anniversary.
Productions of Seneca's work continued to appear into the 1980s. Stagings of Troades, Medea, and Phaedra, for instance, were published, performed, and directed by translator Frederick Ahl. These stagings were noticeably less violent and closer in tone to the original plays than the stagings of Hughes. [21]
Mikis Theodorakis, Medea (1991), premiered at the Teatro Arriaga. This was the first in Theodorakis' trilogy of lyrical tragedies, the others being Electra and Antigone. Chamber Made, Medea (1993), composed by Gordon Kerry, with text by Justin Macdonnell, after Seneca.
Jason and Medea is an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style created by John William Waterhouse in 1907. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The painting depicts the Colchian princess, Medea , preparing a magic potion for Jason to enable him to complete the tasks set for him by her father, Aeëtes .
Also known by the name Creusa, predominantly in Latin authors, e.g. Seneca [11] and Propertius. [12] Hyginus [13] uses both names interchangeably. In Cherubini's opera Medea she is known as Dircé. She married Jason. Creusa was killed, along with her father, by Medea, who either sent her a peplos steeped in flammable poison or set fire to the ...