Medea
(By Amy Levy)
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That wrought the deed – evil, yet wrought for love.”
Near the end of the 19th century, Amy Levy reimagined the Greek myth of Medea.
In Greek mythology, Medea is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of the sun god Helios. Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, appearing in Hesiod's Theogony around 700 BCE, but best known from Euripides's tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes's epic Argonautica.
Amy Levy (1861-1889) was a queer English essayist, poet, and novelist best remembered for her literary gifts. She was the second Jewish woman who attended Cambridge University and the first Jewish student at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her reimagining of Medea is part of her collection: A Minor Poet And Other Verse.”
