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The Medea Homepage

Medea, from a Pompeian fresco

Criticism and Background

General Literary and Mythological Background

• Medea from the Encyclopedia Mythica
• Mythological Background to Euripides' Medea by John Porter
• What the Athenians didn't like about Medea from Perseus
• Study Guide for Medea by Roger Dunkle
• Who is Medea and why do so many people hate her mythological background by Grippy and Cormo, based on Robert Graves' Greek Myths

Commentaries from the Classical Period

• Comments on Medea by Epictetus

Articles and Monographs

• '...and a chorus of Corinthian women...': Use of the Chorus in recent productions of Euripides' Medea by Ruth Hazel, The Open University
• Classical Women: Medea by Kaye Anfield

Adaptations and Allusions

Other Literary Works and Versions of the Myth

• Jason and the Argonauts web page based on The Argonautica, a later version of Jason's quest for the golden fleece
• The Argonautica An Electronic Bibliography by Jackie Murray; over 600 citations; includes texts
• Medea in Athens an idea play by Grippy and Cormo
• A Dutch performance of "Vertel, Medea, Vertel" by Pauline Mol

Film

• Mama Medea A "gritty urban drama" by Dennis Neal Vaughn

Music

Opera

• Cherubini's Opera Medea, with Text by F. A. Hoffman Cast, synopsis, and comments by David Soracchi
• Grave, from Medea by J. A. Benda; a Real Audio clip from Naxos Records. Information on the Naxos recording of Benda's eighteenth century opera.

Other

• Medea the Musical by John Fisher; web page by Bob Fisher contains information on the production and web resources on the mythical and historical background

Art

Vase Paintings from Perseus

• scenes from Medea on a Greek vase(Harvard 1960.315)
• Background on a vase with Medea scene(Harvard 1960.315) (click on Images to see views of the vase)
• Background on a vase with Medea scene(London E163)

Miscellaneous

The Medea Faucet ("Gonna' wash that man right out of my hair")

Performances

• A review of a performance by the Longacre Theatre, New York by Marianne McDonald, from Didaskalia
• King's College Performance of Medea (describes current production of Oedipus Tyrranus; the page will eventually include an archive of previous productions, which include the 1996 production of Medea)

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