Medea (26)

Ranks 26th on The Fictional 100

The following books will introduce you to Medea, who said these words in Euripides' Medea (Rex Warner, Trans.). To order a book, or for more information, follow the book title links to Amazon.com, then return home to browse other characters.

• 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. The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Allen Mandelbaum, Trans.). New York: Mariner Books, 1995.
  • 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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