Medea Wife, Witch, Revenge #shorts #greektragedy #artshorts

“Medea” is not just an ancient Greek tragedy. It’s a challenge.
Euripides wrote it in the 5th century BCE, and ever since, this story has haunted audiences and inspired artists. Medea is a woman betrayed — a foreigner in Greece, abandoned by her husband for another bride. She's exiled, silenced, branded as dangerous — and they weren’t wrong.

But Medea doesn’t beg. She acts. Coldly, strategically, to the bitter end.
Euripides gave her a voice — and turned her into a symbol of power, fury, and destruction. He showed that a woman stripped of everything can become the most terrifying force.

⚡ This play is about power, injustice, gender, and the fear of a clever woman.
That’s why Medea keeps returning in art:
— Caravaggio, Delacroix, Anselm Feuerbach, John William Waterhouse — each one saw something different: a witch, a heroine, a mad mother, a goddess of vengeance.

👁 Medea has always been a mirror of her era.
Once feared. Later pitied. Today, deeply studied.
And in every age — painted again.

🎭 Euripides did the unthinkable: he didn’t condemn Medea — he showed she had her reasons.

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“Medea” is not just an ancient Greek tragedy. It’s a challenge.
Euripides wrote it in the 5th century BCE, and ever since, this story has haunted audiences and inspired artists. Medea is a woman betrayed — a foreigner in Greece, abandoned by her husband for another bride. She's exiled, silenced, branded as dangerous — and they weren’t wrong.

But Medea doesn’t beg. She acts. Coldly, strategically, to the bitter end.
Euripides gave her a voice — and turned her into a symbol of power, fury, and destruction. He showed that a woman stripped of everything can become the most terrifying force.

⚡ This play is about power, injustice, gender, and the fear of a clever woman.
That’s why Medea keeps returning in art:
— Caravaggio, Delacroix, Anselm Feuerbach, John William Waterhouse — each one saw something different: a witch, a heroine, a mad mother, a goddess of vengeance.

👁 Medea has always been a mirror of her era.
Once feared. Later pitied. Today, deeply studied.
And in every age — painted again.

🎭 Euripides did the unthinkable: he didn’t condemn Medea — he showed she had her reasons.