Wednesday 7 July 2010

Medea and Other Plays : Medea; Hecabe; Electra by Euripides




Genre: poet plays - classic Greek
Rating: Excellent *****


I'd forgotten how much I loved reading Greek tragedies until I re picked up this book to read.
Loved Medea the best - the story of Jason's spurred wife and mooter of his two sons...how she enacts revenge on him and all those who have wronged her.
As a feminist I'm on her side!!!


'These plays show Euripides transforming the awesome figures of Greek mythology into recognizable, fallible human beings.'


Plays 2010: 5
Challenges: Great Books Challenge 2010,