Editing Exile (section)

===Drama===
[[File:Jason and Medea - John William Waterhouse.jpg|thumb|''[[Medea#Jason and Medea|Jason and Medea]]'', by [[John William Waterhouse]], 1907]]

Exile is an early motif in [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[tragedy]]. In the ancient Greek world, this was seen as a fate worse than death. The motif reaches its peak on the play ''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]'', written by [[Euripides]] in the fifth century BC, and rooted in the very old oral traditions of Greek mythology. Euripides' ''Medea'' has remained the most frequently performed Greek tragedy through the 20th century.<ref>Cf. [[Helene P. Foley]]: ''Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage''. University of California Press, 2012, p. 190</ref>