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The 1990 play Pecong, by Steve Carter, is a retelling of Medea set on a fictional Caribbean island around the turn of the 20th century; The play was staged at the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End, in a translation by Alistair Elliot. [36] The production opened on 19 October 1993. [36]
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]
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. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.
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.
Deus ex machina in Euripides' Medea, performed in 2009 in Syracuse, Italy; the sun god sends a golden chariot to rescue Medea.. Deus ex machina (/ ˌ d eɪ ə s ɛ k s ˈ m æ k ɪ n ə, ˈ m ɑː k-/ DAY-əs ex-MA(H)K-in-ə, [1] Latin: [ˈdɛ.ʊs ɛks ˈmaːkʰɪnaː]; plural: dei ex machina; 'God from the machine') [2] [3] is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is ...
H. M. Hoover, The Dawn Palace: The Story of Medea (1988) Percival Everett, For Her Dark Skin (1990) Kerry Greenwood, Medea: Book I in the Delphic Women Series (1997). Christa Wolf, Medea (published in German 1996, translated to English 1998) [6] Medea plays a major role as an antagonist in Stuart Hill's The Icemark Chronicles trilogy.
1800: German translation by Karl Alexander Herklots was premiered in Berlin on 17 February 1800; 1802: Another German translation by Georg Friedrich Treitschke was premiered in Vienna on 6 November 1802. 1809: The shortened version of the Treitschke translation was given in Vienna, where Cherubini produced a version which omitted some 500 bars ...
Medea is an opera in three acts composed by Giovanni Pacini to a libretto by Benedetto Castiglia. It premiered on 28 November 1843 at the Teatro Carolino in Palermo, conducted by the composer with Geltrude Bortolotti in the title role. The libretto is based on the plays Medea by Euripides and Médée by Pierre Corneille. [1]