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 |
| Published: |
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: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.