Euripides’ "Medea":
Her Choices and Ours
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The story of Medea and her husband, Jason, is a fascinating one.
It has captured the imagination of many authors ancient and modern.
Euripides wrote a tragedy, Apollonius of Rhodes wrote an epic, Ovid
dedicated several pages of his Metamorphoses on the subject. Moreover,
modern writers, artists and Hollywood producers have made this story
famous in the contemporary audiences.
It
appears as though the fascination with Medea’s story is never ending,
and the reason, I believe, is that, in its essence, this story is
a mirror of our own life experience, which we seek to understand.
This is the story of a woman who gave up everything which was important
to her in order to please the man she loved, but lost everything,
including herself, when he deserted her.
In
this presentation, we will use the story of Medea, as it is related
in the drama of Euripides, to illuminate the strong and weak aspects
of female power. We will use the ancient myth as the tool, which can
raise serious questions regarding the way we lead our own lives in
the world of today
Step by step, we will look at what went wrong in Medea's life,
and we will seek to understand where her choices
resemble those of our own.
In
such a way, Medea's story will become the sounding board, which
will reflect back to us the essence of what we need to understand
in order to avoid her pain, and create for ourselves a marvelous
life of balance, joy and peace.
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