by Eurípides · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483468289
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«Medea» is the Greek tragedy by Euripides, published by Debolsillo in paperback (152 pages, in Spanish).
Jason returns from Colchis with the golden fleece and with Medea, the sorceress daughter of King Aeetes. In Corinth, when Jason decides to marry Glauce, daughter of King Creon, Medea, betrayed, plots a terrible revenge. The tragedy explores betrayal, passion and the destructive power of anger in the darkest of human nature.
Debolsillo Classics collection. Translation and prologue by Ramón Irigoyen; the book includes an analysis by Jordi Balló and Xavier Pérez on Medea as an archetype in literature and film.
Will appeal to fans of classical theatre, Greek mythology and those who trace the survival of its archetypes in literature and film.
Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments survive from most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined: he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
