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=Medea=

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This article is about the Greek mythological figure. //Medea// by [|Evelyn De Morgan]. The myths involving Jason have been interpreted by specialists[|[][|3][|]] as part of a class of myths that tell how the Hellenes of the distant heroic age, before the [|Trojan War], faced the challenges of the pre-Greek "[|Pelasgian]" cultures of mainland Greece, the Aegean and Anatolia. [|Jason], [|Perseus], [|Theseus], and above all [|Heracles], are all "[|liminal]" figures, poised on the threshold between the old world of [|shamans], [|chthonic] earth deities, and the new [|Bronze Age] Greek ways.[|[][|4][|]] Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the [|Argonauts], a myth known best from a late literary version worked up by [|Apollonius of Rhodes] in the 3rd century B.C. and called the //[|Argonautica].// However, for all its self-consciousness and researched archaic vocabulary, the late epic was based on very old, scattered materials. Medea is known in most stories as an enchantress and is often depicted as being a priestess of the goddess [|Hecate] or a witch. The myth of Jason and Medea is very old, originally written around the time [|Hesiod] wrote the //[|Theogony]//. It was known to the composer of the //[|Little Iliad]//, part of the [|Epic Cycle].
 * Medea** ([|Greek]: Μήδεια, //Mēdeia//, [|Georgian]: მედეა, //Medea//) is a woman in [|Greek mythology]. She was the daughter of [|King Aeëtes] of [|Colchis],[|[][|1][|]] niece of [|Circe], granddaughter of the sun god [|Helios], and later wife to the hero [|Jason], with whom she had two children, [|Mermeros and Pheres]. In [|Euripides]'s play //[|Medea]//, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of [|Corinth], offers him his daughter, [|Glauce].[|[][|2][|]] The play tells of how Medea gets her revenge on her husband for this betrayal.

Medea the Play From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1919 title sheet from a [|University of Cambridge] printing. || Nurse Tutor [|Aegeus] Creon [|Jason] Messenger || //**Medea**// ([|Greek]: Μήδεια / //Mēdeia//) 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 [|barbarian] [|protagonist] as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman. Euripides produced the //Medea// along with the lost plays //[|Philoctetes]//, //[|Dictys]// and the [|satyr play] //[|Thersitai]//, winning the third prize (out of three) at the [|City Dionysia] festival for that year.[|[][|1][|]]
 * ~ Medea ||
 * = [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/68/MedeaCambridge.png/200px-MedeaCambridge.png width="200" height="319" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MedeaCambridge.png"]]
 * ~ Written by || [|Euripides] ||
 * ~ Chorus || [|Corinthian] Women ||
 * ~ Characters || [|Medea]
 * ~ Mute || Medea's two children ||
 * ~ Date premiered || 431 BCE ||
 * ~ Setting || Before Medea's house in Corinth ||

MEDEA (1983) Zoe Caldwell (Youtube clip)

 1. [|**The Internet Classics Archive | Medea by Euripides**] By Euripides. Commentary: Quite a few comments have been posted about **Medea**. **...** While **Medea**, his hapless wife, thus scorned, appeals to the oaths he swore, **...**  1. [|**Medea**] The **Medea** tells the story of the jealousy and revenge of a woman **...** Jason arrives and reproaches **Medea** with having provoked her sentence by her own violent **...** [|www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates018.html]

Subject Headings
You can also do a **Keyword** or **Subject** search in the Library catalogue using some of the following headings. Medea Euripides Greek Drama Greek Theatre

Videos and DVDs
The following videos and DVDs are only some of audio-visual resources in the Library collections. These cannot be borrowed but you may arrange to view them in the library ** Medea ** DVD 882.01 MED This production of Euripides is by Classic Productions and the University of Otago. ** Medea ** VT 882.01 MED Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast: Maria Callas, Guiseppe Gentile, Laurent Terzieff Motion picture adaptation of the Euripidean tragedy, which draws on the majesty of ritual theatre and provides an exploration of bizarre and Marxist interpretations of Freudian themes

MEDEA (1983) Zoe Caldwell (Youtube clip) Pasolini, Maria Callas - Medea (1969) 01/12 MEDEA (1959) Judith Anderson