# Medea (Play) — WHE Definition Discussion (1-10332)

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**Created:** [February 14, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/medea-play-whe-definition-discussion-1-10332/17389 "2018-02-14T16:56:00Z")\
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The tragedy _Medea_ was written in 431 BCE by Euripides (c. 484 – 407 BCE). Euripides authored at least 90 plays of which 19 have survived intact. As with the plays by Sophocles and Aeschylus, the audience was already well aware of the myth surrounding Jason and Medea. However, Euripides' version is slightly different, for she emerges not as a cold-blooded murderer but as a suffering mother, maligned by an unfaithful rogue of a husband. Although unpopular when it was first presented, Medea would influence both Seneca and Ovid to author their own versions of the myth.

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_This is a companion discussion topic for the original definition at [https://www.worldhistory.org/Medea\_(Play)/](https://www.worldhistory.org/Medea_(Play)/)._

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