Granddaughter of the sun : : a study of Euripides' Medea / / by C.A.E. Luschnig.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, v. 286
• Author: Luschnig, C. A. E.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 286.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book attempts to view Medea in a positive light: looking not just at her failed relationships, but also at her successful ones and commenting on her intellect rather than just her clever manipulations of men. It tries to see her (or her author, who brings Medea home to Athens), as something of a political hero. The work considers the multiple facets of Medea, as the ideal wife, as a loving mother, as a woman among women, and how Medea becomes the author of her own story. The author asks what Medea is in the last scene: a demon or one of us; how she relates to the city-state; why this heroic drama is presented through the voices of two slaves.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Introduction The Polysemous Medea / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Chapter One. An Ideal Woman / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Chapter Two. Medea And Jason / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Chapter Three. ? Ex Machina: If She Is Not A Woman, What Is She? / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Chapter Four. Medea And Her Children / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Chapter Five. Medea In Corinth / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Chapter Six. The Slave’s Voice / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Chapter Seven. The Battle Of The Stories / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Afterword Medea Among Us / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Works Consulted / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Index: Passages Of Medea Cited / C.A.E. Luschnig -- Index: Thematic And Literary / C.A.E. Luschnig.