How would Plato evaluate Medea--as a moral learning tool or a dangerous temptation to be irrational? How would Aristotle evaluate it? Does it meet his criteria for a well-written tragedy? (Tragedy has to happen to ordinary people as the result of some grave error in judgment of theirs and preferably should happen between family members.) In other words, if Aristotle is right and a good tragedy is the story of an ordinary person--not good, not bad--who makes a major mistake and suffers for it for the rest of his or her life, then who is the main character in Medea? From whose viewpoint is the story told? Medea's--or Jason's?