Medea

Emma Griffiths

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781136000386
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

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.

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

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Illustrations
• Why Medea?
• Key Themes
• After Greece and Rome
• Notes
• Further reading
• Works cited
• Index