Euripides (c. 480 – 406 BC) was Greek and he mainly wrote Tragedies. One such was Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea, first produced in 431 BC.
Medea has been explored in Films (by Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1969, by Lars Von Trier in 1988, by Don Kent in 2001, my Tonino De Bernardi in 2007 and by Natalia Kuznetsova in 2009), Operas, Plays, Ballets, Musicals and Art.
I saw Lars Von Trier’s version of Medea. The original manuscript was written by Carl Theodor Dreyer though he never could film it. Lars Von Trier pays his homage and tribute to the great master.
The story centers around Medea as she finds herself threatened when her husband Jason marries a princess and the revenge that she takes against her husband by killing the princess and her father the King, followed by the raw and brutal killings of both her sons. {Notice the two kids hanging from the tree in the alphabet D in MEDEA!} It shows how far a disturbed mind can go in destroying the most precious things a person possesses.
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