Medea - Euripides

nThe old songs will have to change. n No more hymns to our faithlessness and deceit. n Apollo, god of song, lord of the lyre, n never passed on the flame of poetry to us.

n But if we had that voice, what songs n we'd sing of men's failings, and their blame. History is made by women, just as much as men. n Medea has been betrayed.

Her husband, Jason, has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively.

Strong-willed and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the greatest, and most horrifying, revenge possible. n n Euripides' devastating tragedy is shockingly modern in the sharp psychological exploration of the characters and the gripping interactions between them. Award-winning poet Robin Robertson has captured both the vitality of Euripides' drama and the beauty of his phrasing, reinvigorating this masterpiece for the twenty-first century.n