in the world threatened as Jason leaves her for a princess of Corinth and takes vengeance on him by murdering his new wife, her father-in-law, and her own two sons. She then escapes to Athens to start a new life.

Euripides's play has been retold and reinterpreted for centuries. Playwrights across the world have explored it in a variety of ways, offering political, psychoanalytical, feminist,