Medea (disambiguation)
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Ballet
- MedeaMedea (Ballet)Medea is a composition by American composer, Samuel Barber. Medea's Dance of Vengeance was derived from the work....
, a ballet by Samuel BarberSamuel BarberSamuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music... - Medea, a 1975 ballet by Revaz Gabichvadze
Cinema
- Medea (1969 film), a 1969 film by Pier Paolo PasoliniPier Paolo PasoliniPier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...
- Medea (1988 film)Medea (1988 film)Medea is a 1988 tv movie directed by Lars von Trier. It is based on Carl Theodor Dreyer's adaption of Euripides' play Medea.-Plot:King Creon of Corinth wants to secure his throne. In order to do this, he wants to marry the successful warrior Jason to his daughter Glauce. Jason accepts, but he is...
, a 1988 film by Lars von TrierLars von TrierLars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion.... - Médée (2001 film)Médée (2001 film)Médée is a 2001 French drama film directed by Don Kent and starring Isabelle Huppert.-Cast:* Isabelle Huppert - Médée* Pierre Barrat - Créon* Anne Benoît - La nourrice* Jean-Quentin Châtelain - Jason* Michel Peyrelon - Le pédagogue...
, a 2001 French film - Medea (2009 film)Medea (2009 film)Medea is a film created in Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 2009. The film was based on the tragedy of the same name by the Roman poet Seneca the Younger. The plot is based on the famous myth about the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece...
, a 2009 Russian film
Literature
- Medea: Harlan's WorldMedea: Harlan's WorldMedea: Harlan's World is a collection of science fiction short stories by different authors, all taking place on the same fictional moon...
, a collection of short science-fiction stories - Medea, a novel by Christa WolfChrista WolfChrista Wolf was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She is one of the best-known writers to have emerged from the former East Germany.-Biography:...
- MedeaMedea (The Icemark Chronicles)Medea Clytemnestra Strong-In-The-Arm Lindenshield is a fictional character and the chief antagonist from Stuart Hill's fantasy trilogy of books called The Icemark Chronicles. She appears in a major role in both Blade Of Fire and Last Battle Of The Icemark...
, a character from the book series The Icemark ChroniclesThe Icemark ChroniclesThe Icemark Chronicles is a series of books consisting of The Cry of the Icemark, followed by Blade of Fire, and Last Battle of the Icemark and the upcoming prequel called Redrought. The books were written by Stuart Hill from Leicester. Fox 2000 Pictures optioned the film rights to the book...
, created by Stuart HillStuart HillStuart Hill may refer to:*Stuart Hill , English author of The Icemark Chronicles series of books*Stuart Hill , English amateur sailor, jurist and activist in the Shetland Islands independence movement...
Music
- MedeaMedea (EP)Medea is the debut EP by Michou. It was recorded in two days by founding members Michael Hargreaves, Ryan Ard, Ryan Frith, Lucas Semple and Sasha Appler in the home of friend Joel Bruyere and released on November 24th, 2007....
, an EP by MichouMichouMichou is a folk rock band from Windsor, Ontario.Michou's first release is 2007's EP, MedeaMichou's first studio album is titled Myshkin, released 2008 in Canada,... - Medea, a song by KhomaKhomaKhoma is a progressive and alternative metal musical group from Sweden . Some of its members also play with Cult Of Luna, The Perishers and The Deportees...
on the album The Second WaveThe Second WaveThe Second Wave is the second studio album by Swedish post-rock band Khoma, released in 2006 by Roadrunner Records.- Track listing :...
Opera
- Médée (Charpentier)Médée (Charpentier)Médée is a tragédie mise en musique in five acts and a prologue by Marc-Antoine Charpentier to a French libretto by Thomas Corneille. It was premiered in Paris on December 4, 1693. Médée is the only opera Charpentier wrote for the Académie Royale de Musique...
, a 1693 opera by Marc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres... - Medea (Benda)Medea (Benda)Medea is a melodrama in one act with five scenes by composer Georg Benda with a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter. The work was first performed in Leipzig at the Theater am Rannstädtertor on 1 May 1775.-Historical impact and musical analysis:...
, a 1775 opera by Georg BendaGeorg BendaJiří Antonín Benda, also Georg Anton Benda or J.A. Benda was a Czech kapellmeister, violinist and composer of the classical period.-Biography:... - Médée (Cherubini)Médée (Cherubini)Médée is a French language opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini.The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffmann was based on Euripides' tragedy of Medea and Pierre Corneille's play Médée....
, a 1797 opera by Luigi CherubiniLuigi CherubiniLuigi Cherubini was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries.... - Medea (Pacini)Medea (Pacini)Medea is an opera in three acts composed by Giovanni Pacini to a libretto by Benedetto Castiglia. It premiered on 28 November 1843 at the Teatro Carolino in Palermo, conducted by the composer with Geltrude Bortolotti in the title role...
, an 1843 opera by Giovanni PaciniGiovanni PaciniGiovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas... - Medea, an 1851 opera by Saverio MercadanteSaverio MercadanteGiuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
- Médée (Milhaud), a 1939 opera by Darius Milhaud
- Medea, a 1988 opera by Mikis TheodorakisMikis TheodorakisMikis Theodorakis is one of the most renowned Greek songwriters and composers. Internationally, he is probably best known for his songs and for his scores for the films Zorba the Greek , Z , and Serpico .Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989, he ran as an...
- Medea, a 2010 opera by Aribert ReimannAribert ReimannAribert Reimann is a German opera composer, pianist and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of King Lear was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who sang the title role....
, premiered in Vienna
Painting
- MedeaMedea (Sandys painting)Medea is an oil painting on canvas by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Frederick Sandys which was created in 1868. The painting was submitted to the Royal Academy of Arts for display in the Summer Exhibition of 1868 but it was rejected - most likely for political rather than artistic reasons.Medea was...
, a 1868 painting by Frederick Sandys - Medea, a 1870 painting by Anselm FeuerbachAnselm FeuerbachAnselm Feuerbach was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school.-Biography:...
Theatre
- Medea (play)Medea (play)Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed...
, an Ancient Greek play by EuripidesEuripidesEuripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most... - Medea, a 1st c. AD play by Seneca the YoungerSeneca the YoungerLucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero...
- Médée, a 1635 play by Pierre CorneillePierre CorneillePierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...
- Medea, an 1821 play by Franz GrillparzerFranz GrillparzerFranz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral.-Biography:...
- Medea, a 1946 play by Jean AnouilhJean AnouilhJean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' Classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's...
- Medea, a 1946 BroadwayBroadway theatreBroadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
stageplay, translated by Robinson JeffersRobinson JeffersJohn Robinson Jeffers was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.-Life:Jeffers was born in...
and starring Judith AndersonJudith AndersonDame Judith Anderson, AC, DBE was an Australian-born American-based actress of stage, film and television. She won two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award and was also nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award.-Early life:... - Medea, the MusicalMedea, the MusicalMedea, the Musical is a 1994 musical comedy by American playwright John Fisher. The play, a farce, concerns a theater director's attempt to recast Medea, the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, as a serious modern commentary on LGBT culture, which goes humorously wrong when the director's cast and...
, a 1994 musical comedy by John Fisher
Places
- Médéa ProvinceMédéa ProvinceMédéa is a province of Algeria. The capital is Médéa.-Administrative divisions:The province is divided into 19 districts , which are further divided into 64 communes or municipalities.-Districts:# Aïn Boucif# Aziz...
, Algeria- MédéaMedeaMedea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of...
, the capital city of the Médéa Province
- Médéa
- Medea, Italy
- Medea (titular see), Turkey
- Medea, the realm of the MedesMedesThe MedesThe Medes...
, an ancient Iranian people
Science
- 212 Medea212 Medea212 Medea is a very large main-belt asteroid. It is rather dark in colour.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on February 6, 1880, in Pola, and was named after Medea, a figure in Greek mythology....
, an asteroidAsteroidAsteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones... - Medea geneMedea geneMedea is a gene from the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster that was one of the first two Smad genes discovered. For both genes, the maternal effect lethality was the basis for selection of their names...
, the Drosophila melanogasterDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila melanogaster is a species of Diptera, or the order of flies, in the family Drosophilidae. The species is known generally as the common fruit fly or vinegar fly. Starting from Charles W...
common mediator Smad gene - Medea hypothesisMedea HypothesisThe Medea Hypothesis is a term coined by paleontologist Peter Ward for the anti-Gaian hypothesis that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, is suicidal; in this view microbial-triggered mass extinctions are attempts to return the Earth to the microbial dominated state it has been for...
, the hypothesis that life, understood as a superorganism, is suicidal - Croton (genus)Croton (genus)Croton is an extensive flowering plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, established by Carl Linnaeus in 1737. The plants of this genus were described and introduced to Europeans by Georg Eberhard Rumphius. The common names for this genus are rushfoil and croton, but the latter also...
, a plant genus
Sea vessels
- Medea (yacht)Medea (yacht)The Medea is a 1904 steam yacht preserved in the Maritime Museum of San Diego. Named after Medea, the wife of Jason, she was built on the Clyde at Alexander Stephen and Sons shipyard at Linthouse by John Stephen for William Macalister Hall of Torrisdale Castle, Scotland.During World War I, the...
- Medea class destroyerMedea class destroyerThe Medea class were a class of destroyers that were being built for the Greek Navy at the outbreak of World War I and that were taken over and completed for the Royal Navy for wartime service. All were named after characters from Greek mythology as result of their Greek heritage.The Medeas were a...
- HMS MedeaHMS MedeaSeven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Medea, or HMS Medee, after the Medea of Greek mythology, whilst another was planned:...
, the name of several Royal Navy ships - SS Medea, a French coaster
- Medea (ROV), a remotely operated underwater vehicle
Other uses
- MEDEA Collaborative Media InitiativeMEDEA Collaborative Media InitiativeMEDEA Collaborative Media Initiative is one of six research centres at Malmö University College in Malmö, Sweden. The centre conducts research within the academic fields of interaction design, media and communication studies and collaborative design and innovation studies which lies in the...
, new media research centre at Malmö University, SwedenSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... - Medea statueMedea statueMedea statue is a monument to Medea, a Colchi Princess of the Greek mythology erected in Batumi, Georgia.It was unveiled by the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, on 6 July 2007.-See also:* Colchis* History of Georgia * Golden Fleece...
(2007), a statue of Medea in Batumi, Georgia - Caster, a Fate/stay night character