Medea of Euripides
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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 k…
Details
- AuthorEuripides
- SourceProject Gutenberg #35451
- Length20,473 words · 1h 22m of reading
- Chapters4
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-09-06
Contents
4 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01INTRODUCTION
- 02CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY
- 03MEDEA
- 04NOTES TO MEDEA
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