內容簡介
Medea為了Jason背叛自己的家族，然而在婚姻中他卻無情的變心。心中的怒火驅使她毒殺了Jason的新歡及其父親，但她的復仇尚未結束。為了使Jason的痛苦最大化，她不惜親手斷送自己孩子的性命。
除了對Jason的愛與復仇外，Medea的角色也揭示了女性在父權社會中的不平等地位。尤瑞匹底斯的悲劇題材有別於傳統的英雄主題，大多取材於日常生活，劇中經常出現農民、奴隸等角色，也有許多作品以女性做為主角。他的作品探討了人類的共同情感，對日後西洋文學影響深遠。
“A terrific new translation―Murnaghan’s Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers.”
―KIRK ORMAND, author of Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
作者介紹
About the Translator
Sheila Murnaghan is the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey and numerous articles on Greek epic and tragedy, gender in classical culture, and classical reception. She is the co-editor of Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home and Women and Slaves in Classical Culture: Differential Equations.
