Medea
'Medea' is a comprehensive guide to sources that paint a vivid portrait of the Greek sorceress famed in myth for the murder of her children after she is banished from her home and replaced by a new wife.
| Main Author: | Griffiths, Emma. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Physical Description: |
xii, 147 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series: |
Gods and heroes of the ancient world.
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
'Medea' is a comprehensive guide to sources that paint a vivid portrait of the Greek sorceress famed in myth for the murder of her children after she is banished from her home and replaced by a new wife. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introducing Medea -- Mythology and sources -- Origins, folktale and structuralism -- Witchcraft, children and divinity -- Ethnicity, gender and philosophy -- Euripides' version of myth -- Myth about myth: from Greece to Rome -- Medea afterwards -- Medea in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 'Medea' is a comprehensive guide to sources that paint a vivid portrait of the Greek sorceress famed in myth for the murder of her children after she is banished from her home and replaced by a new wife. |
| Physical Description: |
xii, 147 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
041530069X 0415300703 9780415300698 9780415300704 |