by Eurípides · ISBN 9788468948386
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«Medea» is the Greek tragedy by Euripides, published by Xunta de Galicia in 2004, in Spanish.
Euripides dramatizes the myth of Medea, princess of Colchis, who betrays her family to help Jason obtain the Golden Fleece; when he abandons her to marry another, she plots a revenge that leads the play to a devastating conclusion.
Includes introduction, study guide and translation by Enrique A. Ramos Jurado; text in Spanish.
This study edition is suitable for students of classical literature and for those approaching Greek theater for the first time.
Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments survive from most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined: he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
