“Medea seems to me to fit Euripides better than all the other heroines of his works. Alone, isolated, strange. Driven to the desperate. To the atrocious. And instead of being punished, she is deified. Could this be a camouflaged allegory in honor of all those who become scapegoats for not resembling the others? Strangers, not only racially, but also spiritually,” as stated in the Preface of the edition.

Medea is a wild and naked work. This translation, with an expression devoid of poetic embellishments, realistic, raw, and grounded in everyday language, aims for a contemporary reading of the work, which, while not “poeticizing,” seeks to preserve the high dramatic ethos, so that, if interpreted with inspiration, it can soar and convey tragic chills, emphasizing the resilience of ancient dramatic art, even in a naturalistic present.