Medea | Critical Overview
When Euripides's Medea, along with three other tragedies and a satyr play (a tetralogy), were presented at the annual March festival of Dionysus Euripides did not win the coveted prize; in fact, his tetralogy came in last of the three tetralogies performed that day. This initial reaction, however, has not affected Medea's reputation over the centuries. Euripides's contemporaries did not consider him a master tragedian, and he won only four prizes during his lifetime, although his elder
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