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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]
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.
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.
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 figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, appearing in Hesiod's Theogony around 700 BC, but best known from Euripides's tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes' epic Argonautica. Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress and is often depicted as a priestess of the goddess Hecate.
In Medea, a conflicted Medea is shown mixing a potion for an incantation, c. 1867 by Frederick Sandys. The third book begins by invoking Erato, the Muse of love poetry. The Argo is still hidden in a Colchis backwater when the goddesses Hera and Athena retire to a private room on Olympus to consider in secret how best to help Jason. Hera thinks ...
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]
Anouilh's text is inspired by the myth of Medea. The action is centred on a few characters : Medea, Jason, Creon, and Medea's nurse. The plays ends with Medea's death in the flames, with Jason preventing any help to be given to her. The myth is updated, with Medea for instance living on a trailer-park. Moreover, Anouilh analyses with more depth ...