ഗ്രീക്ക് പുരാണമനുസരിച്ച് കോൾകിസിലെ രാജാവായ ഈറ്റസ്സിന്റെ മകളാണ്‌മീഡിയ.[1] സിർസെയുടെ (circe) അനന്തരിവളും സൂര്യദേവനായ ഹീലിയോയുടെ പൗത്രിയും ജാസന്റെ മുൻ ഭാര്യയുമണ്‌മീഡിയ(/mɪˈdiːə/;ഗ്രീക്ക്:Μήδεια,Mēdeia,Georgian:მედეა,Medea).അതിൽ അവർക്ക് മെർമെരോസ് ഫെരെസ് എന്നിങ്ങനെ രണ്ട് കുട്ടികളുണ്ട്‌. യൂറിപിഡസ്സിന്റെ നാടകത്തിൽ ജാസൺ മീഡിയയെ ഉപേക്ഷിച്ച് പോകുമ്പോൾ കോരിന്തിലെ രാജാവായ ക്രെയോൻ ഗ്ലൗസെ വിവാഹം കഴിക്കാൻ ക്ഷണിച്ചു[2] .ഈ നാടകത്തിൽ മീഡിയ തന്റെ ഭർത്താവിനോടുള്ള പ്രതികാരം തന്റെ മക്കളെ കൊന്ന് തീർക്കുകയാണ്‌
അപ്പോല്ലോനിയുസ് ഓഫ് റോഡ്സ്ന്റെ മൂന്നാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിലെ മികച്ച രചനയായ അർഗോനോട്ടിക്കയിൽ ജാസണും അർഗോനോട്ടുകളോടൊപ്പം മീഡിയയും അതിൽ പ്രാധാന്യം നല്കുന്നു.മിക്ക കഥകളിലും മീഡിയ ഒരു ആഭിചാരിണിയായി ചിത്രീകരിക്കുന്നു.ഹെകറ്റെ എന്ന ദുർമന്ത്രവാദിനിയെ പൂജിക്കുന്നവളായും മിക്കവയിലും ചിത്രീകരിക്കുന്നു.ജാസന്റേയും മീഡിയയുടെയും ഐതിഹ്യം വളരെ പഴയതാണ്‌.ഹെസോയിഡ് കാലത്തിൽ തിയോഗോണിയിലാൺ ഇതിന്റെ ശരിക്കുള്ള ആദ്യ രചന നടന്നത്.ഇതാണ് ലിറ്റിൽ ഇലിയാഡ് എന്നറിയപ്പെടുന്നത് എപ്പിക് സൈക്കിളിന്റെ ഒരു ഭാഗം[3].
Cicero - in the court casePro Caelio, the name Medea is mentioned at least five times, as a way to make fun of Clodia, sister of P. Clodius Pulcher, the man who exiled Cicero.
Robert Graves,Hercules, My Shipmate (novel by the English classicist, 1945)
Rachel Florence Roberts,The Medea Complex (Psychological Thriller, 2013. A fictional novel about insanity and inheritance, namely postnatal depression. The title is taken from the medical meaning of The Medea Complex, and describes the plot of the novel)
Medea (Ovid's lost tragedy - two lines are extant)[5]
Cicero,Pro Caelio (political speech) Cicero refers to Clodia ashanc Palatinam Medeam, "this Medea of the Palatine"
Stuart Hill,Blade Of Fire (Character portrayed as based on Medea in this Young adult novel)
Rick Riordan,The Lost Hero; Medea, having been resurrected by vengeful goddess Gaea (Mother Earth), runs a department store in Chicago.
Morgan St. Knight,Curse of Prometheus: a tale of Medea Medea dwells in modern day Atlanta, and must fight one of the Olympian gods who has revived a deadly cult.
Kerry Greenwood,Medea: Book III in the Delphic Women Series (1997) a retelling of the Jason and the Argonauts epic, focusing on the Princess and Priestess, Medea of Colchis.
Dea Loher,Manhattan Medea (1999) in German; play set in modern-day Manhattan; Medea and Jason are living as illegal immigrants, until Jason marries the daughter of a rich businessman, abandoning Medea and their child; the play takes place on their wedding night.
Luigi Cherubini composed the operaMédée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best-known work, but better known by its Italian title,Medea. A lost aria, which Cherubini apparently smudged out in spite more than 200 years ago, was revealed by x-ray scans.
Simon Mayr composed his operaMedea in Corinto to a libretto of [iuseppe Felice Romano. It premiered in Naples in 1813.
Ray E. Luke's "Medea" won the 1979 Rockefeller Foundation/New England Conservatory Competition for Best New American Opera.
Jacob Druckman's 1980 orchestral work,Prism, is based on three different renderings of the Medea myth by Charpentier, Cavalli, and Cherubini. Each movement incorporates material and quotations from the music of Druckman's three predecessors. At the time of his death, Druckman was writing a large-scale grand opera on the Medea myth commissioned by theMetropolitan Opera.
Star of Indiana—the drum and bugle corps thatBlast! formed out of—used Parados, Kantikos Agonias, andDance of Vengeance in their 1993 production (with Bartók's Allegro fromMusic for Strings, Percussion and Celeste), between Kantikos and Vengeance.
In 1993Chamber Made produced an operaMedea composed by Gordon Kerry, with text by Justin Macdonnell after Seneca.
In 1991, the world premiere was held in theTeatro Arriaga, Bilbao of the opera Medea byMikis Theodorakis. This was the first in Theodorakis' trilogy of lyrical tragedies, the others being Electra and Antigone.
Oscar Strasnoy's opera "Midea (2)", based on Irina Possamai's libretto, premiered in 2000 at Teatro Caio Melisso,Spoleto, Italy. Orpheus Opera Award.
Rockettothesky medea 2008
instrumental chamber music pieceMedea byDietmar Bonnen 2008
Dutch progressive rock bandKayak, with the song Medea, on their 2008 releaseComing Up For Air
Dutch one-man projectSpinvis, with the song Medea, in his albumGoochelaars & Geesten in 2007
Greek Epic Metal bandBattleroar has a song named "The Curse of Medea" in their 2014 albumBlood of Legends.
Mauro Lanza composed the music toLe Songe De Médée, a ballet choreographed by Angelin Prelijocaj for theBallet de l'Opéra national de Paris and featured in the filmLa Danse.
Alina Novikova (composer) and Daria Zholnerova, produced an operaMedea, based on Innokentiy Annenskiy, Evripid's translation. First performed in 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
Aribert Reimann's opera "Medea" premiered in 2011 at the Vienna State Opera directed by Marco Arturo Marelli with Marlis Petersen in the title role.
The southern metal bandThe Showdown has a song called Medea - One Foot In Hell on their albumBack Breaker, which was released in 2008.
English National Opera produced a UK premier staging of Charpentier's opera Médée in 2013. Director,David McVicar, Médée,Sarah Connolly
In 2014, Dutch symphonic/progressive metal bandEx Libris released their second albumMedea. It is a concept album which tells the tragic story of Medea.
In the 1963 filmJason and the Argonauts, Medea was portrayed byNancy Kovack. Here she is a Temple Dancer who Jason saves after her ship sinks, causing her to help him.
In 1988, directorLars von Trier filmed hisMedea for Danish television, using a pre-existing script by filmmakerCarl Theodor Dreyer. Cast includedUdo Kier, Kirsten Olesen, Henning Jensen, and Mette Munk Plum.
In the 2002 biopic of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, Frida, Diego Rivera's previous wife Lupe Marín (played by Valeria Golino) and Frida Kahlo (played by Salma Hayek) talk of Lupe's response to Diego's infidelity. In response, Frida points a knife in a non-threatening gesture at Lupe, and calls her "Medea".
In the 2005 filmL'enfer (Hell) a student Anne (Marie Gillain) takes a formal oral exam on the subject of Medea. Her words are spoken over images of her sister Sophie (Emmanuelle Béart) playing with her two children implying ananalogy.[6]
In the 2004visual novel as well as theanime adaptations ofFate/Stay Night, Medea appears as a relatively major character under the title of Caster.
In 2005, director Theo van Gogh created 6-part miniseries, moving Medea to Dutch politics.[7]
In 2007, director Tonino De Bernardi filmed a modern version of the myth, set in Paris and starringIsabelle Huppert as Medea, calledMédée Miracle. The character of Medea lives in Paris with Jason, who leaves her.
In 2009,Medea was shot by director Natalia Kuznetsova. Film was created by the tragedy of Seneca in a new-for-cinema genre of Rhythmodrama, in which the main basis of acting and atmosphere is music written before shooting.
In the 2013 television seriesAtlantis, Medea is portrayed by Scottish actressAmy Manson.
In the 2015 television series "Olympus", Medea is portrayed by actressSonita Henry.
↑For this general aspect, see especially Carl A.P. Ruck and Danny Staples,The World of Classical Myth: Gods and Goddesses, Heroines and Heroes University of North Carolina 1994, part III: The Liminal Hero.
↑Ovid also wrote a full play calledMedea from which only a few lines are preserved.
↑Fragments are printed and discussed by Theodor Heinze,Der XII. Heroidenbrief: Medea an Jason Mit einer Beilage: Die Fragmente der Tragödie Medea P. Ovidius Naso. (in seriesMnemosyne,Supplements, 170. 1997
Apollodorus,Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
Clauss, J. J. and S. I. Johnston (eds),Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy and Art. (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997).ISBN 9780691043760.
McDermott, Emily,Euripides' Medea: The Incarnation of Disorder. (University Park, PA, Penn State University Press, 1985).ISBN 9780271006475.
