Medea

Name: Medea
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Euripides
ISBN: 9781987180183

Author: Euripides

Narrator: Jared Ristau-Hernandez

Unabridged: 1 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Golden Acorn Media

Published: 06/06/2019

Categories: Fiction, Drama

Synopsis

Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the "barbarian" kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by murdering Jason's new wife as well as her own children, after which she escapes to Athens to start a new life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on February 09, 2024

Way back in the day, I was at a movie theatre watching a movie, and it was a really weird movie. I had no idea what was going on throughout the entire film. People were just getting up and walking out. At the end of the movie, someone explained it to me, and I thought, “Wow! That’s so interesting! B......more

Goodreads review by Sasha on June 03, 2020

I wish Shakespeare had written a play where the Macbeths got divorced. You'd love to see what Lady Macbeth would have to say about it, right? The thing with marrying an asshole is, divorcing them isn't going to be pretty. Here's the ugliest breakup in history, the most famous play by the nastiest Gre......more