Famous Greek tragedy of 431 B.C., staging Medea, abandoned wife of Jason who preferred her daughter Creon, banished and killed her two young sons.
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Euripide
480 BC - 406 BC More attentive to describing human passions in their truth and counting than to celebrating the greatness of legendary heroes, he was the most modern of Greek tragic poets.
After the fabulous journey of the Argonauts, Jason takes as wife the one who helped him so much in the conquest of the Golden Fleece: Medea. Of royal blood but of barbaric origin, she will always remain the foreigner in Corinth. Is that the reason why Jason, ten years later, breaks their alliance for another much more advantageous? King Creon offers him his daughter...
Outraged, abandoned with his two sons, Medea is ready for anything. Nothing will stop her violence, and her fearful intelligence will be at the service of the worst cruelty...
The first work entirely dedicated to Medea, the tragedy of Euripide gave this mythological character such a dimension that it continues to inspire the greatest writers.