Medea : : Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art / / ed. by James J. Clauss, Sarah Iles Johnston.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Boedeker, Deborah,; Bremmer, Jan,; Clauss, James,; Dillon, John,; Graf, Fritz,; Inwood, Christiane,; Johnston, Sarah,; Krevans, Nita,; McDonald, Marianne,; Newlands, Carole,; Nussbaum, Martha,; O'Higgins, Dolores,
• HerausgeberIn: Clauss, James J.,; Johnston, Sarah Iles,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 5 halftones

From the dawn of European literature, the figure of Medea--best known as the helpmate of Jason and murderer of her own children--has inspired artists in all fields throughout all centuries. Euripides, Seneca, Corneille, Delacroix, Anouilh, Pasolini, Maria Callas, Martha Graham, Samuel Barber, and Di...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• PREFACE
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I: MYTHIC REPRESENTATIONS
• 1 Medea, the Enchantress from Afar: Remarks on a Well-Known Myth
• 2 Corinthian Medea and the Cult of Hera Akraia
• 3 Medea as Foundation-Heroine
• 4 Why Did Medea Kill Her Brother Apsyrtus?
• PART II: LITERARY PORTRAITS
• 5 Medea as Muse: Pindar's Pythian 4
• 6 Becoming Medea: Assimilation in Euripides
• 7 Conquest of the Mephistophelian Nausicaa: Medea's Role in Apollonius' Redefinition of the Epic Hero
• 8 The Metamorphosis of Ovid's Medea
• PART III: UNDER PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION
• 9 Medea among the Philosophers
• 10 Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca's Medea
• PART IV: BEYOND THE EURIPIDEAN STAGE
• 11 Medea at a Shifting Distance: Images and Euripidean Tragedy
• 12 Medea as Politician and Diva: Riding the Dragon into the Future
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX LOCORUM
• GENERAL INDEX