I love Medea. For me, the horror in this story is when you feel her terrible act was not just inevitable but understandable. Even logical. Yet that descent, that terrifying unravelling, is missing in ...

It wasn't an immediate success. Not according to the judges at Athens' annual dramatic festival when "Medea" premiered in 431 B.C. Euripides received the third, or last, prize, losing out to Euphorion ...

The libretto for Cherubini's Medea was written by Francois Benoit Hoffman, and has roots in the classic play by Euripides. As the story begins, quite a lot of groundwork has already been laid. Jason, ...

Medea, in all its forms, is a divorce story intimately concerned with the ways past relationships haunt present ones, how this haunting is infected by patriarchy and its anxieties, and how that same ...

Scorned and seething since 431 B.C.E., Medea has raged across the centuries as an empathetic emblem of the human consequence of paternalistic betrayal — by a man for whom a Golden Fleece was just not ...

*Originally published on September 19, 2022. The ancient Greek story of Jason and Medea starts as a love story and ends as a horror show — just the way the Greeks liked it. Jason was young, handsome, ...