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Medea: A Classic Greek Tragedy of Betrayal, Exile, and Revenge
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617204555
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Dec 13 2011
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Medea is one of the defining tragedies of ancient Greek drama, a stark and psychologically powerful play about betrayal, exile, vengeance, and the catastrophic collapse of marriage and family. Abandoned by Jason after helping him win the Golden Fleece and secure his fame, Medea finds herself dishonoured, politically vulnerable, and threatened with banishment in Corinth. Her response is not submission but calculation: wounded pride, grief, rage, and intelligence combine in one of the most terrifying acts of revenge in classical literature.
Euripides gives Medea a force and complexity that have kept the play central to theatre, literature, classics, and women's studies for more than two thousand years. She is at once victim and destroyer, foreigner and royal woman, abandoned wife and ruthless strategist. The result is not a simple moral lesson but a disturbing drama of power, gender, passion, and justice. For readers of Greek tragedy, classical mythology, ancient literature, and the foundations of Western drama, Medea remains one of Euripides' most concentrated and unforgettable works.
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