Euripides

A shocking look into the disturbed mind of a woman who has been scorned and left. Medea's revenge is horrible but never unbelievable. She does what every sane person would do, when deprived of all that she loves.

To win the kingdom his uncle took from his father, Jason must steal the golden fleece from the land of barbarians, where Medea is royalty and a powerful sorceress, where human sacrifice helps crops to grow... (imdb)

The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia. (imdb)

A powerful rendering of the tragedy of Elektra by Euripides. The film begins with a summary treatment without dialogue of the action of the preceding play in the trilogy, The Agamemnon, in which the wicked Queen Clytemnestra and her lover Aesgisthes murder her husband Agamemnon upon his return from the Trojan War. (imdb)

The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city. (imdb)

Maya is a famous actress who is returning to the stage for a production of the classic Greek tragedy Medea, in which she will play the title character, a mother who murders her children. (allmovie.com)

New French translation of Myrto Gondicas and Pierre Judet de la Combe. Recorded in the Cour d'Honneur du Palais des Papes in Avignon in 2000. (worldcat.org)

Medea, by Euripides in a new version by Ben Power (youtube.com)

Written and directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, this stars Edith Clever as Sybille von Bismarck, the daughter-in-law of Otto von Bismarck. She recites a monologue in which she reads from The Trojan Women by Euripides, The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist and Faust: Part II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

This collaboration between Ingmar Bergman and the composer Daniel Börtz on an opera version of Euripides' play came about at Bergman's behest. (ingmarbergman.se)

Televised performance of the Greek tragedy by Euripides