A woman betrayed by the man she gave up everything for. Jason has abandoned Medea for a princess. Medea's response will be total. Seneca's version strips away Euripides's ambiguity and replaces it with pure theatrical fury — Medea plans, rages, conjures, and kills her own children on stage. The most extreme of the Senecan tragedies, and the blueprint for every revenge tragedy that followed.
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