<center> The old songs will have to change. <P> No more hymns to our faithlessness and deceit. <P> Apollo, god of song, lord of the lyre, <P> never passed on the flame of poetry to us. <P> But if we had that voice, what songs <P> we'd sing of men's failings, and their blame. History is made by women, just as much as men. </center> <P> <P> Medea has been betrayed. Her husband, Jason, has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strong-willed and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the greatest, and most horrifying, revenge possible. <P> Euripides' devastating tragedy is shockingly modern in the sharp psychological exploration of the characters and the gripping interactions between them. Award-winning poet Robin Robertson has captured both the vitality of Euripides' drama and the beauty of his phrasing, reinvigorating this masterpiece for the twenty-first century.