Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini

he subject of this chapter is Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film adaptation of one of the most shocking and intriguing plays from Greek antiquity, Euripides’ Medea. This is a text that continues to inspire generations of artists – mostly playwrights, but also writers and film directors – who approach it in many different ways, dealing with the issues of an oppressed foreign woman, who, in the Euripidean account, brutally killed her children.