Medea - An Ancient Greek Tragedy

Discover the Ancient Greek tragedy Medea (by Euripides), in our two-minute animation voiced by Angela Griffin.

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[greerlovesgovert]

Wonderful summary of my favourite Greek tragedy. Deeper than a lover's love is a lover's hate. Well said!

[nonoo]

Fun fact: Jason never really cared much about his children, only ever referring to them as Medea's children. But when they d¡e, Jason begins to refer to them as his.

[pdrg]

I really liked this - accessible classics for the rest of us! More please!

[CHAS]

WOW! Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn. She had good reason for her scorn, but left a lot of collateral damage, never killing Jason, but rather everybody he loved. No wonder Medea is not a popular name to give a daughter.

[y_fam_goeglyd]

That took me back to my classical Greek OU courses! Quite some time ago, but I try to keep some basic knowledge fresh. Thank you, this was an amazing short version of the original much, much longer one!

[Bignatedogg]

This gives me chills in a real way, Why? Because in 1975 there was a play called Madea in Essex county college in Newark NJ and I know the woman who played Madea and the man who played Jason and the Children who was deleted.
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[kingulingana]

Really - Very well made. Thank you very much for this amazing, informative and at the same time entertaining minutes, video!

[TheAndryo]

Tyler Perry really has been doing this forever.

[silvialogan]

I studied the play 'Medea" when I did my MA in Classical Studies for my EMA and I watched two versions of the play. She murdered her own children, Jason's new bride and her father king Cleon just to punish Jason for being unfaithful to her.

[MillennialClassicist]

This is a brilliant animation, thanks for sharing it. On the thumbnail there is a small typo tradegy> tragedy

[mariamdanelia]

Medea was the princess of Colkhis, Colkhis is considered to be Georgia. The Greeks have Medea as a goddess included in history, but we Georgians don't. When Jason came to look for gold that belonged to Medea's father. Medea helped steal this gold and escape. .Medea and Jason They got married in the ocean because Jason needed it and not because he loved her as it was in Medea's case, they write that during the escape Medea also killed her brother which most people think that Jason did it. They write that they lived together for many years and had 14 children. Jason was also one of the thrones The heir, however, could not become king again, so he told Medea that she should marry a Greek. The case and the kingdom needed the queen like this. Jason also had his first wife, who also left her. Medea agreed to the marriage, invited this woman to dinner and killed her by poisoning the food. Medea was a bearer of great knowledge, an alchemist, she made medicines and poisons from plants. Some people refer to Medea as a witch. And she was also a witch. She understood everything well in esotericism, astronomy, metaphysics, magic, medicine.. Only one historian writes that she killed two of her children. One historian writes that she poisoned her children for another, and they poisoned her children. It is logical that when Medea killed Jason His future wife's family then killed his children. Medea is referred to as a traitor to the motherland, but she returned to her country. When the king of Colchis returned, her father was no longer there, Medea took the kingdom from her uncle and returned it to her father. After all this, Medea's history is lost. Jason died.

[Bio-basti]

We all poisened with the gift of self destructrion.thanks Jason

[Irine-rq]

in Georgian mythology Medea didn't kill her children, some people killed them and blamed her, because she was foreign and the "king" of greece didn't want Jason to marry foreign woman, neither Greeks. so they blamed her children's murderer to her. neither! she didn't kill Jason's women, everything is explained by Political issue with Kolchs and greeks

[Stret]

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[aaronlazaro]

It's interesting that the tragic myth of Jason and Medea inspired the British drama TV series Doctor Foster.

[venesse]

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[CasualPhoenix]

Courtney Love says this is the meaning of Hole.

[jennieferris]

Great name.... just rolls off the toung my Medea gets called Dee

[CP-uvti]

I love Medea. But Jason should know he was dealing with long time ago when she killed her baby brother and cut him into pieces

[kalasaha]

Why'd she kill her son just to kill her husband