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Medea is the tragic tale of a woman scorned. It was written in 431 B.C. by the Greek playwright, Euripides. Eruipides was the first Greek poet to suffer the fate of so many of the great modern writers: rejected by most of his contemporaries (he rarely won first ....

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.... foreigner; that is to say, in terms of the audience’s prejudice and practice she is a representative of the two free born groups in Athenian society that had almost no rights at all (“Norton Anthology” 739). Euripides could not have chosen a more downtrodden role for Medea. Here is this woman who has stood by her man through thick and thin. She has turned her back on her family and killed her own brother while helping Jason capture the Golden Fleece. “Oh my father! Oh, my country! In what dishonor I left you, killing my own brother for it.” (Medea 164-165) Despite all of her devotion to her husband he ....