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"When
once she is wronged in the matter of love,
No other
soul can hold so many thoughts of blood."
The following books will introduce you to Medea, who said
these words in Euripides' Medea (see below).
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- Euripides. Medea
(Rex Warner, Trans.). Dover Thrift Editions, 1993.
- Still shocking after 24 centuries. Diana Rigg won
a best actress Tony award for playing her in 1994
on Broadway.
- Ovid. Metamorphoses
(Allen Mandelbaum, Trans.). New York: Harcourt Brace,
1993.
- Ovid includes Medea's sorcery and murderous
elopement with Jason, showing what led up to the
events in Euripides' tragedy.
- Clauss, James J. and Johnston, Sarah Iles (Eds.). Medea:
Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art.
Princeton University Press, 1997.
- Charts the changing representations of this
mythical murderess in theatre, opera, painting,
and classical thought.
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