The Tragic Life Story of Medea as Mother, Monster, and Muse
The Tragic Life Story of Medea as Mother, Monster, and Muse

Author: Jana Rivers Norton

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-11-13

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1527543404

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This volume offers a critical yet empathic exploration of the ancient myth of Medea as immortalized by early Greek and Roman dramatists to showcase the tragic forces afoot when relational suffering remains unresolved in the lives of individuals, families and communities. Medea as a tragic figure, whose sense of isolation and betrayal interferes with her ability to form healthy attachments, reveals the human propensity for violence when the agony of unresolved grief turns to vengeance against those we hold most dear. However, metaphorically, her life story as an emblem for existential crisis serves as a psychological touchstone in the lives of early twentieth-century female authors, who struggled to find their rightful place in the world, to resolve the sorrow of unrequited love and devotion, and to reconcile experiences of societal abandonment and neglect as self-discovery.

Jason + Medea
Jason + Medea

Author: Elizabeth Periale

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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A new take of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts, told from the persepctives of Jason, Medea, and others, written and illustrated by Elizabeth Periale

Medea
Medea

Author: Christa Wolf

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 1998-03-17

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0385518579

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Medea is among the most notorious women in the canon of Greek tragedy: a woman scorned who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In her gripping new novel, Christa Wolf expands this myth, revealing a fiercely independent woman ensnared in a brutal political battle. Medea, driven by her conscience to leave her corrupt homeland, arrives in Corinth with her husband, the hero Jason. He is welcomed, but she is branded the outsider—and then she discovers the appalling secret behind the king's claim to power. Unwilling to ignore the horrifying truth about the state, she becomes a threat to the king and his ruthless advisors. Then abandoned by Jason and made a public scapegoat, she is reviled as a witch and a murderess. Long a sharp-eyed political observer, Christa Wolf transforms this ancient tale into a startlingly relevant commentary on our times. Possessed of the enduring truths so treasured in the classics, and yet with a thoroughly contemporary spin, her Medea is a stunningly perceptive and probingly honest work of fiction.

Medea
Medea

Author: James J. Clauss

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1997-01-12

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780691043760

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The figure of Medea has inspired artists in all fields throughout the centuries. This work examines the major representations of Medea in myth, art, and ancient and contemporary literature, as well as the philosophical, psychological and cultural questions these portrayals raise.

Medea
Medea

Author: Euripides

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780973638431

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Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st Centuries
Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st Centuries

Author: Andrés Pociña Pérez

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9004383395

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The theme of Medea in Portuguese literature has mainly given rise to the writing of new plays on the subject. The central episode in the Portuguese rewritings in the last two centuries is the one that takes place in Corinth, i.e., the break between Medea and Jason, on the one hand, and Medea’s killing of their children in retaliation, on the other. Besides the complex play of feelings that provides this episode with very real human emotions, gender was a key issue in determining the interest that this story elicited in a society in search of social renovation, after profound political transformations – during the transition between dictatorship and democracy which happened in 1974 – that generated instability and established a requirement to find alternative rules of social intercourse in the path towards a new Portugal.