i am medea a wife a mother an enchantress and a woman contemplating a terrible crime the murder of my children why the age-old reason romantic betrayal my sorcery has helped my husband jason steal the golden fleece from my father and in making our escape i slew my own brother but now here in corinth jason has turned to glauke daughter of king crayon the two are to marry and i medea abandoned by jason and an exile in a foreign land i'm cast into torment and i seed stronger than a lover's love is
a lover's hate so i will make jason pay let no one think of me as humble or weak or passive i'd sooner stand in the front line of battle three times than suffer childbirth once king crayon has exiled me with one day's grace faking good intentions i prepare a deadly gift for glaucey a poisoned dress and crown to be presented to her by my sons jason's new love will die but what would hurt more losing his sons hate is a bottomless cup and i will poor and poor a messenger arrives the plan has worked
glauke has perished and her father too poisoned by a loving embrace now my children a dark deed but my judgment cannot check my anger that which incites the greatest evils humans do next to athens aided by a gift from my grandfather helios the sun god as for you my husband your life was folly you'll die like the fool you are and so ends our sorry story yours and mine [Music] get more from the open university check out the links on screen now
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Wonderful summary of my favourite Greek tragedy. Deeper than a lover's love is a lover's hate. Well said!
Tyler Perry really has been doing this forever.
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.
I really liked this - accessible classics for the rest of us! More please!
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!
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. 2:30
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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.
I love the historical accuracy
It's interesting that the tragic myth of Jason and Medea inspired the British drama TV series Doctor Foster.
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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
Why'd she kill her son just to kill her husband
Why are these greek characters depicted as black? Ancient greeks werent black
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Great animation but there is much more depth in Medea. It is about womans position in patriarchal society and the way man treated women like an object with no capacity to have mind of their own.