Long before the knife appears, Medea is already a bloodbath — just a rhetorical one. Euripides gives his two leads a series of verbal duels that function like sword fights: […]
There is a moment in Medea where the title character stands alone on stage, knife-logic already decided, and argues with herself out loud about whether to go through with killing […]
Every city needs someone to define itself against. For fifth-century Athens, watching Euripides’ Medea unfold in 431 BCE, that someone walked onto the stage speaking Greek perfectly, dressed like any […]
