The influence of Euripides on the development of the dramatic genre cannot be overstated. Along with Sophocles and Aeschylus he is regarded as one of the three great Greek tragedians from classical antiquity. One of the most important of Euripides' surviving dramas is "Medea", the story of its title character, the wife of Jason of the Argonauts, who seeks revenge upon her unfaithful husband when he abandons her for a another bride. Set in Corinth...

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Sorceress, Princess of Colchis, Securer of the Golden Fleece. Her very name is a byword for infamy. Legend has it that she murdered her own children for revenge. But love in Ancient Greece was often a dangerous game; and legends are not always what they seem. Medea, devoted wife of Jason, was also a loving mother, a loyal friend of Herakles and a brave adventurer with the Argonauts. A woman both betrayer and betrayed, the real story of Medea is strange,...

To win back his kingdom, Jason must enlist the help of Medea, a powerful sorceress. But when Jason scorns her for another woman, she unleashes a firestorm of revenge. After helping Jason steal a magical fleece, Medea returns to Greece with him, and after many years of marriage she seeks revenge when she learns that he has decided to marry another woman.

Euripides, along was Sophocles, and Aeschylus, is largely responsible for the rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during his life, Euripides now stands as an innovator of the Greek drama. Collected here are six of Euripides' tragedies in prose translation by Edward...

Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction-to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains-as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose-the daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father who shadowboxes with death in hospital corridors-as she slips deeply and dangerously into the lair of a cocaine-fed artist in the bohemian squalor of Venice. Lithium...

Thousands of years after humanity fled a desolate Earth, people return to begin anew. The Gods reawaken and take on new forms. Together, deities, women, and men forge a new mythology borne of compassion instead of conflict. In this world, Medea journeys through pain, passion, and motherhood in search of her power, and in search of joy. Can she outpace and outsmart an adversary who would see her, her sons, and her kingdom destroyed? Will her magic...