Medea

Euripides · 431 BCE · Play · Greek · Classical

Jason has put aside the wife who betrayed her own family to win him the Golden Fleece, and is marrying the daughter of the king of Corinth. Medea, foreign, brilliant and under sentence of exile, asks for one more day in the city and gets it. Betrayal answered with the most terrible revenge a mother can devise.

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Lineage

• ↓ Metamorphoses
  Ovid · 8 CE · Poem — influenced by this
• ↓ Lysistrata
  Aristophanes · 411 BCE · Play — alludes to this
• ↓ Heroides
  Ovid · c. 15 BCE · Poem — alludes to this
• ↓ Argonautica
  Apollonius of Rhodes · c. 250 BCE · Poem — responds to this
• ↓ Medea
  Christa Wolf · 1996 CE · Novel — responds to this
• ↓ Medea (Seneca)
  Seneca · c. 50 CE · Play — reworks this

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• Medea (Seneca)
  Seneca · c. 50 CE · Play

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• Hamlet
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  43% · 10 shared
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• The Nibelungenlied
  Anonymous · c. 1200 CE · Poem

  43% · 10 shared
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• Blood Wedding
  Federico García Lorca · 1933 CE · Play

  42% · 10 shared
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• Antigone
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  39% · 11 shared
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