Medea

Euripides

ISBN 10 : 0486275485 ISBN 13 : 9780486275482

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 1993

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Book by Euripides

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Excerpt from The Medea of Euripides

The Medea, in spite of its background of wonder and enchantment, is not a romantic play but a tragedy of character and situation. It deals, so to speak, not with the romance itself, but with the end of the romance, a thing which is so terribly often the reverse of romantic. For all but the very highest of romances are apt to have just one flaw somewhere, and in the story of Jason and Medea the flaw was of a fatal kind.

The wildness and beauty of the Argo legend run through all Greek literature, from the mass of Corinthian lays older than our present Iliad, which later writers vaguely associate with the name of Eum us, to the Fourth Pythian Ode of Pindar and the beautiful Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius. Our poet knows the wildness and the beauty; but it is not these qualities that he specially seeks. He takes them almost for granted, and pierces through them to the sheer tragedy that lies below.

Jason, son of Aeson, King of Iolcos, in Thessaly, began his life in exile. His uncle Pelias had seized his fathers kingdom, and Jason was borne away to the mountains by night and given, wrapped in a purple robe, to Chiron, the Centaur.

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This Qontro Classics paperback edition of Medea by author Euripides Euripides is designed and competitively priced with the consumer in mind. Medea is highly recommended for those who enjoy the works of Euripides Euripides and for those discovering his writings for the first time.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0486275485
• ISBN 13: 9780486275482
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 64