Medea

by Euripides

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Title Statements

Full title :Medea / Euripides ; edited by Donald J. Mastronarde.

Summary

Medea is a story of betrayal and vengeance, and one which gives an excellent example of the prominence and complexity that Euripides gave to his female characters. Medea, wife of Jason, is incensed that her husband would leave her to make a political marriage after the many sacrifices she has made for him. In her wrath, she murders both his new bride and their own children, thus taking her revenge.

"This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyses Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of motivation that lead to her tragic insistence on killing her own children, and assesses the potential sympathy of a Greek audience for a charater triply marked as other (barbarian, witch, woman). A unique feature of this book is the introduction to tragic language and style. The text, revised for this edition, is accompanied by an abbreviated critical apparatus. The commentary provides morphological and syntactic help for inexperienced students and more advanced observations on vocabulary, rhetoric, dramatic techniques, stage action, and details of interpretation, from the famous debate of Medea and Jason to the 'unmotivated' entrance of Aegus and the controversial monologue of Medea."--Back cover

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013, ©2002.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013, ©2002.

Notes

Originally published 2002.

The text of Medea is in Greek; all other sections of the book are in English.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 431 pages ; : 19 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780521643863, 0521643864, 9780521643658, 0521643651, 9781107633810, 1107633818
oclc:ocn884723207
LC Classification:PA3973.M4
Dewey Decimal:882.01

General introduction : -- 1. Euripides: life and work -- 2. The play: structure, themes, and problems -- 3. Productions -- 4. Euripides' Medea and the Medea-myth -- 5. Neophron's Medea -- 6. Media after Euripides and the influence of his Medea -- 7. The text ; -- Structural elements of Greek tragedy -- Introduction to language and style -- Introduction to prosody and metre -- A note to the critical apparatus -- MEDEA -- Commentary -- Appendix : Medea's great monologue.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Drama Euripides Greek drama (Tragedy) Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and cr… Medea (Euripides) Medea,, consort of Aegeus, King of Athe… Tragédie grecque -- Histoire et critique