The Reception of the Medea in the United States

Ancient Studies Week Lecture

The Reception of the Medea in the United States

              Helene Foley, Columbia University

Wednesday, October 19, 4:00 p.m., Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery  

From the nineteenth century onwards Euripides’ Medea has been the single most performed Greek tragedy on the stage in the United States. The play’s resourceful foreign heroine succeeds in winning justice, although at a terrifying cost. Helene Foley explores Medea’s multiple incarnations as a wronged but empowered 'Other' from the 1840s to the present.

Sponsors: Department of Ancient Studies and Dresher Center for the Humanities