Discours de Médée: Logométrie et Médée d’Euripide

This article proposes a study of the speech of Medea in Euripides’ Medea in comparison with the speeches of the other characters of this tragedy. Our purpose is to define,
thanks to logometry, the specificities of the speech of Medea: does the heroine speak rather as a
woman or as a man? What are the links between discursive characterization and dramatic construction of the character? In this way, we shall try to understand how and why the speeches
of Medea and Jason present numerous similarities and which are the consequences on the
development of the tragic action of this famous play.