The Medea
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few tragedies in the Western canon cut as deeply as Euripides' The Medea, a searing portrait of a woman scorned to the point of catastrophe. Set against the backdrop of ancient Corinth, the play chronicles the devastating collapse of Medea's world after her husband Jason abandons her for a politically advantageous marriage, igniting a vengeance so absolute it defies every moral boundary — including the most primal instinct of motherhood. This edition presents Gilbert Murray's celebrated translation into English rhyming verse, accompanied by his own explanatory notes, rendering the raw power of the original Greek accessible without diminishing its ferocity. Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford, brought unparalleled scholarly authority and poetic sensitivity to his translations of the great Greek tragedians, and his version of The Medea remains one of the most lauded of its kind. Euripides himself was a radical voice in Athenian drama — psychologically complex, morally ambiguous, and deeply sympathetic to the marginalised — and in Medea he created a figure who has haunted the imagination of every subsequent age. Published by the esteemed London house of George Allen & Unwin Ltd, this edition is a testament to a timeless work that continues to ask the most uncomfortable of questions: how far can injustice push a human soul?
Author: Gilbert Murray (Translated By)
Format: Hardback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few tragedies in the Western canon cut as deeply as Euripides' The Medea, a searing portrait of a woman scorned to the point of catastrophe. Set against the backdrop of ancient Corinth, the play chronicles the devastating collapse of Medea's world after her husband Jason abandons her for a politically advantageous marriage, igniting a vengeance so absolute it defies every moral boundary — including the most primal instinct of motherhood. This edition presents Gilbert Murray's celebrated translation into English rhyming verse, accompanied by his own explanatory notes, rendering the raw power of the original Greek accessible without diminishing its ferocity. Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford, brought unparalleled scholarly authority and poetic sensitivity to his translations of the great Greek tragedians, and his version of The Medea remains one of the most lauded of its kind. Euripides himself was a radical voice in Athenian drama — psychologically complex, morally ambiguous, and deeply sympathetic to the marginalised — and in Medea he created a figure who has haunted the imagination of every subsequent age. Published by the esteemed London house of George Allen & Unwin Ltd, this edition is a testament to a timeless work that continues to ask the most uncomfortable of questions: how far can injustice push a human soul?