By Tom Barry “No good or evil. We are all as wretched as each other” Amongst the few Ancient Greek texts to have survived the centuries, Euripides’ most renowned (and arguably well-regarded) play Medea stands as a fascinating spyglass into the psyche and society of the time, and its treatment of women. Regarded as a warning of feminine capriciousness by some, and as a proto-feminist diatribe by others, Medea’s position as a classic of the form is beyond contestation. Beginnin