Medea

Medea is a tragedy based on a myth, written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides and first performed in 431 BC as part of a trilogy whose other plays have not survived. Its plot centers on Medea, a former princess of Colchis and wife of Jason, who finds her position threatened when Jason leaves her for a princess of Corinth and takes vengeance by murdering his new wife, his new father-in-law and her own two sons before escaping to Athens. Along with three other plays, Medea earned Euripides only third prize at the City Dionysia, yet it has become a classic of the Western canon and the most frequently performed Greek tragedy of the twentieth century, retold and reinterpreted across political, psychoanalytical and feminist readings. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/