Medea Hypokrites

The locution Medea hypokrites is not likely to have circulated in classical Greece. In the fifth century, the term hypokrites had come to designate an actor on the Greek stage, typically an actor who took a prominent role in the dialogue. It therefore would have been used of the individual who may have been Euripides’ chief tragic actor, a certain Cephisophon, but it was not used of the character whom he played. The origin of the Greek term for actor has