Dec 29, 2009

Medea | Media Adaptations

Medea's anguished story has been transformed into film, music, opera, art, poetry, prose, and drama. In the early years of the first century A.D., the Spanish Roman, Seneca, wrote a melodramatic version of Medea that portrays Medea as a witch and Jason as being relatively innocent of causing her anger. Ianni Xenakis, a Greek born in Rumania, wrote music for Seneca's version of Medea in 1967.

In 1946, French playwright Jean Anouilh adapted the play to serve as an analogy for modern life. American poet...