She is dressed in an ornate robe and Phyrgian tassled helmet, the chariot surrounded by a "solar mandorla". If the Medea vase is not on the Italian prosecutors' list of looted pieces, it probably ...

The play ends like a brutal thunderclap as Medea escapes to Athens in a dragon-drawn chariot, flanked by the corpses of her sons, mocking Jason’s agony and revelling in her victory.

Scoop s Suzan Mazur writes that the vase was part of a highly controversial auction of the Hunt brothers' collection at Sotheby's in June 1990. However, an informed source close to the Italian ...

In Euripides' version of Medea, the bloody plot includes a scene featuring "a chariot drawn by dragons." But Mouawad keeps his Medea simple. There is no furniture, there's barely any props.

Among the many singularities of Pasolini’s films, the proportions of his narrative structure have to be the strangest. Here we, like the young Jason who grows before our eyes, get a six-minute ...