1. Medea - Noun
2. Medea - Proper noun
(Greek mythology) a princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father
Source: WordNetOne [film] is based on the Medea myth about a woman who kills her own child -- The Love of Ruins. It is almost a technical exercise to see if I can convince an audience or make an audience sympathetic to a woman who kills her own child. Peter Greenaway
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills. Martha Graham
But Medea in her chamber, trembling and terror-struck now at what she has done, is encompassed by all her father's threatening rage. Gaius Valerius Flaccus
Unconscionable Love, bane and tormentor of mankind, parent of strife, fountain of tears, source of a thousand ills, rise, mighty Power, and fall upon the sons of our enemies with all the force you used upon Medea when you filled her with insensate fury. Apollonius of Rhodes
Medea quickly turned aside, covering her eyes with her veil so as not to see her brother's blood spilt. Apollonius of Rhodes
I myself have experienced the volcanic existential depths of the Greek language. It was during a performance of Medea by Tzeni Karezi at the Herod Atticus theatre in Athens,when she was pleading to the callous Jason to take pity on her and she used the word ' splachniasou.' Angelique Rockas