The paper discusses three adaptations of Euripides’Euripides Medea which stipulate the heroine as a Black woman: a novella by Paul HeyseHeyse, Paul and theater plays by Hans Henny Jahnn and Guy ButlerButler, Guy. Various dimensions of cultural, racist, and aesthetic discrimination are distilled from this material and analyzed with respect to the impact they have on the course of the actionAction which, in all three adaptations, implies Medea killed her children—but for different reasons.