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Medea's conflicting urges and her  dazzling rhetoric have exercised an enduring fascination over  audiences and readers since the play was first performed in 431  BC. This edition examines a wide range of aspects of the play,  including text, performance, interpretation, Euripides' sources,  other lost plays about Medea and Euripides' portrayal of  character and gender. 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