Medea

Medea is a tragedy based on a myth, written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides and first performed in 431 BC as part of a trilogy whose other plays have not survived. Its plot centers on Medea, a former princess of Colchis and wife of Jason, who finds her position threatened when Jason leaves her for a princess of Corinth and takes vengeance by murdering his new wife, his new father-in-law and her own two sons before escaping to Athens. Along with three other plays, Medea earned Euripides only third prize at the City Dionysia, yet it has become a classic of the Western canon and the most frequently performed Greek tragedy of the twentieth century, retold and reinterpreted across political, psychoanalytical and feminist readings.