Author: Euripides

Date: 431BC
Greek text: The Perseus Project has a Greek text on-line.
Bibliography

Texts and Commentaries

• Diggle, J. Euripidis Fabulae. 3 vols. Clarendon: Oxford, 1981-1994. 1.85-155.
• Page, Denys L. Euripides: Medea. Clarendon: Oxford, 1938.
• Van Looy, Herman. Euripides: Medea. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1992.

Student edition

Elliot, Alan. Euripides: Medea. Oxford: Oxford, 1969.

Translations available:

• Brooks, Jeremy. Euripides: Plays: One. London: Methuen, 1988.
• Elliot, Alistair. Euripides: Medea. London: Oberon, 1993.
• Hadas, Moses and James McLean. Ten Plays by Euripides. New York: Bantam, 1960. 31-63.
• Kovacs, David. Euripides: Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea. Loeb Classical Library 12. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1994. 283-427.
• Morwood, James. Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.
• Podlecki, Anthony. Euripides' Medea. Newburyport: Focus, 1991.
• Roche, Paul. Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Bacchae. New York: W.W. Norton, 1974.
• Vellacott, Philip. Euripides: Medea and Other Plays. New York: Penguin, 1963. 7-61.
• Warner, Rex. The Complete Greek Tragedies. David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, eds. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1955. Originally appeared in 1944 with many reprints.
• Wilner, Eleanor with Inés Azar. Euripides, 1: Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, The Bacchae. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1998. 1-70.

Studies

• survey

“I know what I intend to do is wrong, But the rage of my heart is stronger than my reason-- That is the cause of all men’s foulest crimes.” (Medea, translated by Alistair Elliot) In Medea, Euripides creates a tragic portrait of a woman pushed to the edge and beyond. By killing her rival in love and slaying her two sons, Medea fuses justice to vengeance; her horrific actions, however, lead not only to the destruction of her husband’s happiness, but to her own as a mother. The Abbey Players bring remarkable capability to classical dramatic plays with perfor mances that easily rival productions by professional companies. The Abbey Players are celebrating their 50th anniversary.