How do you use Medea in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Medea meaning
An enchantress who helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece.
Synonyms of Medea
Using Medea
- The main meaning on this page is: An enchantress who helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece.
- Useful related words include: mythical being.
- In the example corpus, medea often appears in combinations such as: of medea, medea is, medea as.
Context around Medea
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Medea
- In this selection, "medea" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, euripides, cause, describing, seealso, plays and 824 stand out and add context to how "medea" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2 a medea halloween and accounts of medea s story. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "medea" sits close to words such as aarp, accretion and aerosols, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with medea
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Contemporary labels Medea, Wandler, Okhtein and Miista stood out in a saturated Paris market. (14 words)
Personae of Medea The different depiction of Medea’s character clash in ancient literary works. (15 words)
About Harlan Ellison's world Medea, jointly written with Poul Anderson, Thomas M. Disch, Larry Niven & Frederik Pohl. (18 words)
Medea Benjamin, who travelled to Chicago from Washington DC with a women-led group of protesters calling for peace, said she was shocked that the Biden administration recently approved an additional 20 billion dollars in weapons sales to Israel. (39 words)
The title is taken from the medical meaning of The Medea Complex, and describes the plot of the novel) * Medea ( Ovid 's lost tragedy - two lines are extant) Fragments are printed and discussed by Theodor Heinze, Der XII. (38 words)
When Medea confronted Jason about the engagement and cited all the help she had given him, he retorted that it was not she that he should thank, but Aphrodite who made Medea fall in love with him. (37 words)
And will Norma pull a Medea, as suggested by the myth that haunts the opera, killing her children and her lover’s new flame? (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
Apollonius says that Medea only helped Jason in the first place because Hera had convinced Aphrodite or Eros to cause Medea to fall in love with him.
Cultural depictions of Medea seeAlso The dramatic episodes in which Medea plays a role have ensured that she remains vividly represented in popular culture.
Instead of being the center of the story like she is in Euripides’ Medea, this version of Medea is reduced to a supporting role.
Medea 824 sqq.; Denys L. Page, Euripides: Medea, Oxford University Press (1976), Introduction page vii His lyric skills however are not just confined to individual poems: "A play of Euripides is a musical whole.
Personae of Medea The different depiction of Medea’s character clash in ancient literary works.
Scholars have examined these accounts of Medea’s story in search for images and themes that tie these versions of Medea together.
There is also many nautical references throughout the play either used by other characters when describing Medea or by Medea herself.
The title is taken from the medical meaning of The Medea Complex, and describes the plot of the novel) * Medea ( Ovid 's lost tragedy - two lines are extant) Fragments are printed and discussed by Theodor Heinze, Der XII.
When Medea confronted Jason about the engagement and cited all the help she had given him, he retorted that it was not she that he should thank, but Aphrodite who made Medea fall in love with him.
And will Norma pull a Medea, as suggested by the myth that haunts the opera, killing her children and her lover’s new flame?
Greek media have nicknamed Pispirigou, a nurse by training, as a “modern-day Medea”, a figure in Greek mythology who murders her sons after their father leaves her for another woman.
Medea, in her book and talks, calls this war a stalemate that is not winnable on the battlefield but could lead to World War III or a nuclear war.
Medea Benjamin, who travelled to Chicago from Washington DC with a women-led group of protesters calling for peace, said she was shocked that the Biden administration recently approved an additional 20 billion dollars in weapons sales to Israel.
Aamir Khan‘s daughter Ira Khan will soon be making her directorial debut with a play based on the adaptation of Euripeides’s Medea.
Contemporary labels Medea, Wandler, Okhtein and Miista stood out in a saturated Paris market.
The play’s title evokes Medea’s status as an outsider: “Mojada” is a Spanish-language slur addressed to newcomers who crossed the Rio Grande to enter the country.
But Cusk wonders in whether they–like Medea, Antigone and other women of Greek tragedy–can achieve honor through that suffering.
Trappist monks and a guest are pictured at the Monastery of Notre Dame de l’Atlas near Medea, Algeria, in this undated photo.
Tyler Perry also took home the worst actress raspberry for his popular drag character Madea in 'Boo 2: A Medea Halloween'.
About Harlan Ellison's world Medea, jointly written with Poul Anderson, Thomas M. Disch, Larry Niven & Frederik Pohl.
Common combinations with medea
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of medea 12×
- medea is 4×
- medea as 4×
- medea and 4×
- and medea 4×
- euripides medea 3×
- medea was 3×
- with medea 3×
- medea to 2×
- medea oxford 2×