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Nina ( picturetalk321 )
Aug 14, 2024 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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It seems churlish to give this anything under 5 stars. If anything, the Cambridge classics series is irresistible: smooth white paper like blancmange (beautiful handfeel) and impeccably amazing notes. I love the bi-page format, with the (brilliant) translation at right and the notes at left. I was not as blown away as with Sophocles' Oedipus Rex or Aeschylus' Agamemnon but as those plays are 8/5, that still leaves a full house for Medea. An astounding and weird ending, a compelling female charac ...more
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Karen
May 08, 2023 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
First time reading this play, and the first time I have read anything by Euripides. I am reading Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures by Stephen Fry right now, so I will be learning more about Jason and Medea's story. ...more
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superawesomekt
Aug 28, 2021 rated it liked it
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For being an awful story there are some good lines. Basically Medea *is* the original hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-woman-scorned.

"I wish you happiness, but not here in this world. What is here your father took."

Even as Jason begs the gods to curse Medea she replies, "What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?"

/Exit in a chariot drawn by dragons (clearly the Greek version of a mic drop) ...more
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