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This course explores the character of Medea in ancient Greek and Roman literary and artistic sources, as well as her lasting fortune in modern literature and film. We shall read Euripides' Medea and Seneca's homonymous play, in addition to excerpts from Pindar, Apollonius of Rhodes and Valerius Flaccus. These readings will be integrated with a survey of Greek and Roman artistic sources featuring Medea. The last week will be devoted to the screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini's and Lars von Trier's films dedicated to this multifaceted figure of Greek mythology.