Seneca’s Medea: Beware Pure Evil

Episode 41In this episode I take a detailed look at Seneca's version of Medea. The story of a woman who is a foreigner and a witch suited his form of dark tragedy perfectly.A summary of the narrative of the playThe impact of the language used and how it becomes overblown.An analysis of the final scene and why Seneca might have chosen to make this the only moment of visual drama in the play.Questions about how and if the play was staged and the use of stage machineryMedea as a witch and how that plays into Roman tropesThe character of Jason an his effect on the playA comparison of the Euripides version to Seneca'sThe legacy of Seneca's tragedy on the medieval period.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy