Euripides: Medea

by Judith Mossman

Overview

Jason, in exile in Corinth, is marrying the king's daughter. It looks as though his problems are over, though it's hard on Medea, who has betrayed her family for him, followed him all the way from Colchis, killed for him, and borne him two sons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780856687884
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/13/2011
Series:	Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Judith Mossman is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. She has also published Wild Justice: A Study of Euripides Hecuba (Oxford 1995, repr. BCP 1999) and edited Oxford Readings in Euripides (Oxford 2003).

Judith Mossman is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. She has also published Wild Justice: A Study of Euripides Hecuba (Oxford 1995, repr. BCP 1999) and edited Oxford Readings in Euripides (Oxford 2003).

Table of Contents

General Editors Foreword
Editors Preface

Introduction
I. Medea
II. Myth
III. Play and Trilogy
IV. Other Medeas: Intertextuality
V. The judgement of character: manipulating the audience
VI. Performance and delivery VII. Later Medeas
The Text: How do we know what Euripides wrote?

Medea

Commentary

General bibliography for Euripides