Medea
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Medea

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eBook - ePub

Medea

About this book

Giving access to the latest critical thinking on the subject, Medea is a comprehensive guide to sources that paints a vivid portrait of the Greek sorceress Medea, famed in myth for the murder of her children after she is banished from her own home and replaced by a new wife. Emma Griffiths brings into focus previously unexplored themes of the Medea myth, and provides an incisive introduction to the story and its history.

Studying Medea's 'everywoman' status – one that has caused many intricacies of her tale to be overlooked – Griffiths places the story in ancient and modern context and reveals fascinating insights into ancient Greece and its ideology, the importance of life, the role of women and the position of the outsider.

In clear, user-friendly terms, the book situates the myth within analytical frameworks such as psychoanalysis, and Griffiths highlights Medea's position in current classical study as well as her lasting appeal.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9781136000386
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
Literature
INDEX
Achilles 8, 52
Actresses’ Franchise League 108
Aeneid 98
Aeschylus 18, 52, 54, 64, 71, 83
Against Aristogeiton (Demosthenes) 43
Agamemnon (Aeschylus) 64, 83
Aietes, King 7, 9, 30, 53, 60
Aigeus, King 8, 10, 49, 79, 82
Aison 7, 45
akrasia 68–9
Alexandria 20, 21, 88
Alexandrian Library 20, 88
Amazons 4
Andromache (Euripides) 43
Anouilh, J. 114
Antigone 79
Antigone (Sophocles) 111
Antiphon 78
Aphrodite 43, 53
Apollo 49
Apollodoros of Athens 21–2, 44
Apollonios Rhodios 19, 35, 43, 44, 52, 88–9
Apsyrtos 2–3, 7, 10, 47, 49, 52, 57
Arcellaschi, A. 97
archaic literature 14–17
Argonautica (Apollonios Rhodios) 19, 35, 43, 44, 52, 88; language/rationality of 89–90; Latin translation 90
Argonautica (Orphic) 22
Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus) 32, 62, 98–9
Argonauts 30
Ariadne 35
Arians 60
Aristotle 19, 69, 74, 78, 83
Armitage, S. 112
Artemis 31, 53, 60
Asia 60
Asklepios 45
Asterodeia 10
Athena 15, 50
Athens 18, 61, 71, 72, 81–3
Augustine, Saint 104
Bacchus 46
Barry, M. 38
Benjamin, Medea 118
Bibliotheca (Apollodoros) 21–2, 44–5
Boedeker, D. 79
Bremmer, J.N. and Horsfall, N.M. 36
Burne-Jones, E. 107
Burnett, A. 78
Butler, G. 112
Butler, J. 64
By the Bog of Cats (Carr) 114
Cahill, J. 67, 116
Caria 54
Carr, 114
cauldron motif 23, 43, 45, 46
Chaldean Oracles 69
Chalkiope 10, 62
Chaucer, G. 104, 107
Cheiron 32, 33
childbirth 56, 75
children 10; and child-killing demons 51–2; hostility towards 48; as immortal 16; and infant exposure 48–9; infanticide 5, 8, 16, 36, 47–9, 51–2, 56, 62, 67, 68, 86, 97–8, 108–9
Choephori (Aeschylus) 52
Christianity 103–4
citizenship 61
Clauss, J.J. 36
compendia 21–2
Confessions (St Augustine) 104
Corneille, P. 44, 107
Corti, L. 107
’Das Golden Fließ’ 107
Dassin, J. 114, 115
Davidson Reid, J. 104
De Herod (Plutarch) 53
death 2, 77, 112; of children 5, 6, 8, 36, 47–9, 51–2, 56, 62, 67, 86, 97–8; of foreigners 53; and rejuvenation 7–8
Deianeira 43
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series foreword
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Illustrations
  8. Why Medea?
  9. Key Themes
  10. After Greece and Rome
  11. Notes
  12. Further reading
  13. Works cited
  14. Index

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