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OGCMA s.v. "Medea"
Classical Sources:
Hesiod Theogony, 956ff.
Pindar, Pyth. 4.9ff.
Herodotus, 8.62
Euripides, Medea, passim
Euripides, Peleiades, fragments
Ap. Rhod., Argo., 3 and 4
Ennius, Medea Exul
Accius, Medea
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl. 4.48-52, 54-55
Ovid Heroides, 6 and 12
Ovid Met. 7.1-400
Apollodorus Libr. 1.9.23-28; Epit. 5.5
Seneca, Medea
Pausanias, 2.3.6-11, 2.12.1, 5.18.3, 8.9.1-3, 8.11.2
Hyginus Fab. 25-27
Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead, 9 "Menippus and Tiresias"

Marian Carr, By the Bog of Cats, drama 2004, premiered at Wyndhams Theatre, London (West End)

Promotional poster for "By the Bog of Cats" starring Holly Hunter, with an ethereal, blurred image of a woman

Blurb: “Mariana Carr’s lyrical and darkly humorous new play tells the epic story of Hester Swane, a passionate and headstrong woman with an unearthly connection to her homeland in the bogs of rural Ireland. Deserted by her mother and betrayed by her lover, she now fears for the safety of her daughter. As mythical forces begin to conspire and the play reaches its exhilarating climax, Heter finally fulfills her destiny.”

Review by T. Keatinge, Nov 2004.

Review by Tim Treanor of DC 2010 production: “You know the story of Medea. … It is much the same here, except that instead of Iolkos, we are in Ireland’s Bog of Cats….”

N. Pressley review in Washington Post, 19 Feb 2010. “Hester — like Medea — is profoundly wronged and deeply wong…”

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.