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There is scholarly evidence to support the idea that Euripides was hired by the people of Corinth to write this play to make Medea into a villain: not even crazy but a purely evil woman who would (view spoiler). I did a paper on it in grad school. Of course I don't know where my paper is nor the citations but who needs references in an opinion piece? ;) I did the research after I read The Dawn Palace, a young adult novel with a feminist take on the story. (That book was excellent in its own right, helping me to understand what it was like to live in that era, particularly as a woman. It's one of my very favorite books and I highly recommend it.) I didn't mind the play but the inherent misogyny gave me pause even before I discovered that it was propaganda. I'm not disputing how well it was written but it was not enjoyable to me.

2022-11-14 13:48