If you don’t know much about Greek mythology, “Medea” is Euripides’ dramatization of the ancient story of the sorceress daughter of a barbarian king whose arrogant husband leaves her for another woman ...

The Athenian poet Euripides was the last of the three great Greek tragedians (after Aeschylus and Sophocles) and also the least successful. Greek tragedies were performed competitively at religious ...