Description:
Wronged and discarded by her husband, Medea gradually reveals her
revenge in its increasing horror, while the audience is led to
understand the incomprehensible. This Student Edition contains a full
introduction, commentary and questions for study and includes J.
Michael Walton's classic translation.
Brief description: Euripides was born near Athens between 485 and 480 BC. His first play was presented in 455 BC and he wrote some hundred altogether of which nineteen survive - a greater number than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles combined - and which include Alkestis, Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytos, Ion and Iphigenia at Aulis. He died in 406 BC.