Euripides writes a masterpiece of love, betrayal and revenge. Medea gives up everything for the man she falls in love with. She pulls him out of jail and certain death, she departs with him from the safety of her kingdom, she kills her own brother in order to guard her lover and at the end he abandons her for another younger woman. Medea poisons this woman and kills her children to take revenge. The mother chooses to sacrifice her own children to ease the pain of unfaithfulness.
The last scene of the book- the monologue of a merciless Medea- is a tragic voice of desolation, which knows that there is no escape from This pain.

Euripides shapes the Jason/ Medea myth to his own ends in this one hour (plus a few minutes) Ancient Greek drama, and the result is at least interesting. I wasn’t wholly enthusiastic about the play itself, but the ending was extremely thought provoking given the various retellings of the myth that are available.