The dramatic episodes in which Greek mythology character Medea plays a role have ensured that she remains vividly represented in popular culture.
Literature
In Cicero's court case Pro Caelio, the name Medea is mentioned several times, as a way to make fun of Clodia, sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher, the man who exiled Cicero. In the 15th-century Italian Arthurian romance La Tavola Ritonda, Medea lives on as the marvelously beautiful mistress of the island Perfida's Cruel Castle (Castello Crudele) in which she imprisons the hero Tristano (Tristan), as "every year she wanted to bent a [different] knight to her pleasure" for she was "the most lecherous woman in the world". Tristano, faithful to his true love Isolda, manages to escape from Medea's magic castle. Jean Anouilh, Médée (1946) John Gardner, Jason and Medeia Robinson Jeffers, Medea Hans Henny Jahnn, Medea Maxwell Anderson, The Wingless Victory Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women (1386) Michael Wood, In Search of Myths & Heroes: Jason and the Golden Fleece Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou (Bost), Medea (parody of Medea of Euripides) Regina Hansen Willman, Music for Medea Robert Graves, Hercules, My Shipmate (novel by the English classicist, 1945) Peter Kien, Medea, a play written while Kien was an inmate at the Theresienstadt concentration camp and never performed. Medea (Ovid's lost tragedy - two lines are extant) Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats A. R. Gurney, The Golden Fleece Pierre Corneille, Médée (tragedy, 1635) Ernest Legouvé, Médée (1855) William Morris Life and Death of Jason (epic poem, 1867) Franz Grillparzer, Das goldene Vliess (The Golden Fleece) (play, 1822) Dorothy M. Johnson, Witch Princess (novel, 1967) Otar Chiladze, A Man Was Going Down the Road (novel, 1973) Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes, Gota d'Água (musical play set in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, based on Euripides, 1975) Heiner Müller, Medeamaterial and Medeaplay Kate Braverman, Lithium for Medea, 1979 Percival Everett, For Her Dark Skin (novel, 1990) H. M. Hoover, The Dawn Palace: The Story of Medea (novel, 1988) Christa Wolf, Medea (a novel) (Medea: Stimmen) (published in German 1993, translated to English 1998) Cherríe Moraga, The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea (combines classical Greek myth Medea with Mexicana/o legend of La Llorona and Aztec myth of lunar deity Coyolxauhqui) Stuart Hill, Blade Of Fire (Character portrayed as based on Medea in this Young adult novel) Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero; Medea, having been resurrected by vengeful goddess Gaea (Mother Earth), runs a department store in Chicago. She appears again in The Burning Maze and is shown to work under Caligula. Kerry Greenwood, Medea: Book III in the Delphic Women Series (1997) a retelling of the Jason and the Argonauts epic, focusing on the Princess and Priestess, Medea of Colchis. Dea Loher, Manhattan Medea (1999) in German; play set in modern-day Manhattan; Medea and Jason are living as illegal immigrants, until Jason marries the daughter of a rich businessman, abandoning Medea and their child; the play takes place on their wedding night. Jan Siegel, The Dragon Charmer (2000) A side note in an epic trilogy about witchcraft, sorcery, and magic. Laurent Gaudé, Médée Kali (2003). David Vann, Bright Air Black (2017) retells Medea's story in prose poetry from a third person perspective. It is both lyrical and mired in Bronze Age realism. Madeline Miller, Circe (2018) narrates Medea's visit to her aunt Circe to be cleansed for the killing of her brother. Ben Morgan, Medea in Corinth (2018) is a sequence of poems and dramatic interludes which focus on Medea's religious encounter with Hecate. It includes a sonnet sequence composed of letters to Creusa, her love rival, illuminating their relationship.
Art
John William Waterhouse depicted Jason and Medea in Jason and Medea (painting). Thomas Satterwhite depicted Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman who killed two of her children to spare them from slavery, in The Modern Medea (painting).