Euripides' Medea

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271040378
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Euripides' Medea by : Emily A. McDermott

Download or read book Euripides' Medea written by Emily A. McDermott and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides' Medea, produced in the year that the Peloponnesian War began, presents the first in a parade of vivid female tragic protagonists across the Euripidean stage. Throughout the centuries it has been regarded as one of the most powerful of the Greek tragedies. McDermott's starting point is an assessment of the character of Medea herself. She confronts the question: What does an audience do with a tragic protagonist who is at once heroic, sympathetic, and morally repugnant? We see that the play portrays a world from which all order has been deliberately and pointedly removed and in which the very reality or even potentiality of order is implicitly denied. Euripides' plays invert, subvert, and pervert traditional assertions of order; they challenge their audience's most basic tenets and assumptions about the moral, social, and civic fabric of mankind and replace them with a new vision based on clearly articulated values of his own. One who seeks for &"meaning&" in this tragedy will come closest to finding it by examining everything in the play (characters, their actions, choruses, mythic plots and allusions to myth, place within literary traditions and use of conventions) in close conjunction with a feasible reconstruction of the audience's expectations in each regard, for we see that it is a keynote of Euripides' dramaturgy to fail to fulfill these expectations. This study proceeds from the premise that Medea's murder of her children is the key to the play. We see that the introduction of this murder into the Medea-saga was Euripides' own innovation. We see that the play's themes include the classic opposition of Man and Woman. Finally, we see that in Greek culture the social order is maintained by strict adherence within the family to the rule that parents and children reciprocally nurture one another in their respective ages of helplessness. Through the heroine's repeated assaults on this fundamental and sacred value, the playwright most persuasively portrays her as an incarnation of disorder. This book is for all students and scholars of Greek literature, whether in departments of Classics or English or Comparative Literature, as well as those concerned with the role of women in literature.

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

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004383395
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st Centuries by : Andrés Pociña Pérez

Download or read book Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st Centuries written by Andrés Pociña Pérez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Medea

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691043760
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (437 download)

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Book Synopsis Medea by : James J. Clauss

Download or read book Medea written by James J. Clauss and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Unbinding Medea

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351538187
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Unbinding Medea by : Heike Bartel

Download or read book Unbinding Medea written by Heike Bartel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medea - simply to mention her name conjures up echoes and cross-connections from Antiquity to the present. The vengeful wife, the murderess of her own children, the frail, suicidal heroine, the archetypal Bad Mother, the smitten maiden, the barbarian, the sorceress, the abused victim, the case study for a pathology. For more than two thousand years, she has arrested the eye in paintings, reverberated in opera, called to us from the stage. She demands the most interdisciplinary of study, from ancient art to contemporary law and medicine; she is no more to be bound by any single field of study than by any single take on her character. The contributors to this wide-ranging volume are Brian Arkins, Angela J. Burns, Anthony Bushell, Richard Buxton, Peter A. Campbell, Margherita Carucci, Daniela Cavallaro, Robert Cowan, Hilary Emmett, Edith Hall, Laurence D. Hurst, Ekaterini Kepetzis, Ivar Kvistad, Catherine Leglu, Yixu Lue, Edward Phillips, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Paula Straile-Costa, John Thorburn, Isabelle Torrance, Terence Stephenson, and Amy Wygant.

Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317098978
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France by : Amy Wygant

Download or read book Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France written by Amy Wygant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, reception history, poetics, and psychoanalysis, this innovative study shows how the glamour of the historical witch, a spell that she cast, was set on a course, over a span of three hundred years from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, to become a generally broadcast glamour of appearance. Something that a woman does, that is, became something that she has. The antique heroine Medea, witch and barbarian, infamous poisoner, infanticide, regicide, scourge of philanderers, and indefatigable traveller, serves as the vehicle of this development. Revived on the stage of modernity by La Péruse in the sixteenth century, Corneille in the seventeenth, and the operatic composer Cherubini in the eighteenth, her stagecraft and her witchcraft combine, author Amy Wygant argues, to stun her audience into identifying with her magic and making it their own. In contrast to previous studies which have relied upon contemporary printed sources in order to gauge audience participation in and reaction to early modern theater, Wygant argues that psychoanalytic thought about the behavior of groups can be brought to bear on the question of "what happened" when the early modern witch was staged. This cross-disciplinary study reveals the surprising early modern trajectory of our contemporary obsession with magic. Medea figures the movement of culture in history, and in the mirror of the witch on the stage, a mirror both appealing and appalling, our own cultural performances are reflected. It concludes with an analysis of Diderot's claim that the historical process itself is magical, and with the moment in Revolutionary France when the slight and fragile body of the golden-throated singer, Julie-Angélique Scio, became a Medea for modernity: not a witch or a child-murderess, but, as all the press reviews insist, a woman.

Medea

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415300704
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Medea by : Emma Griffiths

Download or read book Medea written by Emma Griffiths and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both visual and literary, this indispensable guide to the fascinating mythical figure of Medea gives access to the latest critical thinking in the field, brings into focus previously unexplored themes, and provides an incisive introduction to the story and the ideology of ancient Greece.

Medea

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585104647
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)

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Book Synopsis Medea by : Euripides

Download or read book Medea written by Euripides and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Granddaughter of the Sun

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004160590
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Granddaughter of the Sun by : C. A. E. Luschnig

Download or read book Granddaughter of the Sun written by C. A. E. Luschnig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By looking at aspects of "Medea" that are largely overlooked in the criticism, this book aims at an open and multiple reading. It shows that stories presented in the drama of 5th century Athens are not unrelated to human beings who actually exist.

The Medieval Medea

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859914598
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)

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Book Synopsis The Medieval Medea by : Ruth Morse

Download or read book The Medieval Medea written by Ruth Morse and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging study of the myth of Medea, concentrating on but not exclusively confined to its medieval incarnation.

Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435352
Total Pages : 1227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols) by : Andreas Markantonatos

Download or read book Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols) written by Andreas Markantonatos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 1227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Euripidean studies.

In the Wake of Medea

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Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823287831
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Wake of Medea by : Juliette Cherbuliez

Download or read book In the Wake of Medea written by Juliette Cherbuliez and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Wake of Medea examines the violence of seventeenth-century French political dramas. French tragedy has traditionally been taken to be a passionless, cerebral genre that refused all forms of violence. This book explores the rhetorical, literary, and performance strategies through which violence persists, contextualizing it in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini. The mythological figure of Medea, foreigner who massacres her brother, murders kings, burns down Corinth, and kills her own children, exemplifies the persistence of violence in literature and art. A refugee who is welcomed yet feared, who confirms the social while threatening its integrity, Medea offers an alternative to western philosophy’s ethical paradigm of Antigone. The Medean presence, Cherbuliez shows, offers a model of radically persistent and disruptive outsiderness, both for classical theater and for its wake in literary theory. In the Wake of Medea explores a range of artistic strategies integrating violence into drama, from rhetorical devices like ekphrasis to dramaturgical mechanisms like machinery, all of which involve temporal disruption. The full range of this Medean presence is explored in treatments of the character Medea and in works figuratively invoking a Medean presence, from the well-known tragedies of Racine and Corneille through a range of other neoclassical political theater, including spectacular machine plays, Neo-Stoic parables, didactic Christian theater. In the Wake of Medea recognizes the violence within these tragedies to explain why violence remains so integral to literature and arts today.

A Companion to Greek Tragedy

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292759703
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Greek Tragedy by : John Ferguson

Download or read book A Companion to Greek Tragedy written by John Ferguson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays. John Ferguson places each play in its historical, political, and social context—important for both Athenian and modern audiences—and he displays a keen, discriminating critical competence in dealing with the plays as literature. Ferguson is sensitive to the meter and sound of Greek tragedy, and, with remarkable success, he manages to involve even the Greekless reader in an actual encounter with the Greek as poetry. He examines language and metrics in relation to each tragedian's dramatic purpose, thus elucidating the crucial dimension of technique that other handbooks, mostly the work of philologists, renounce in order to concentrate on structure and plot. The result is perceptive criticism in which the quality of Ferguson's scholarship vouches for what he sees in the plays. The book is prefaced with a general introduction to ancient Greek theatrical production, and there is a brief biographical sketch of each tragedian. Footnotes are avoided: the object of this handbook is to introduce readers to the plays as dramatic poetry, not to detail who said what about them. There is an extensive bibliography for scholars and a glossary of Greek words to assist the student with the operative moral and stylistic terms of Greek tragedy.

Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199897735
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens by : Ed Sanders

Download or read book Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens written by Ed Sanders and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions vary extensively between cultures, especially in their eliciting conditions, social acceptability, forms of expression, and co-extent of terminology. Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens examines the sensation, expression, and literary representation of these major emotions in Athens. Previous scholarship has primarily taken a lexical approach, focusing on usage of the Greek words phthonos and zêlos. This has value, but also limitations, for two reasons: the discreditable nature of phthonos renders its ascription or disclamation suspect, and there is no Classical Greek label for sexual jealousy. A complementary approach is therefore required, one which reads the expressed values and actions of entire situations. Building on recent developments in reading emotion "scripts" in classical texts, this book applies to Athenian culture and literature insights on the contexts, conscious and subconscious motivations, subjective manifestations, and indicative behaviors of envy, jealousy, and related emotions. These critical insights are derived from modern philosophical, psychological, psychoanalytical, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, thus enabling an exploration of both the explicit theorization and evaluation of envy and jealousy, and also the more oblique ways in which they find expression across different genres-in particular philosophy, oratory, comedy, and tragedy. By employing this new methodology, Ed Sanders illuminates a significant and underexplored aspect of Classical Athenian culture and literature.

The Medea of Euripides

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Book Synopsis The Medea of Euripides by : Euripides

Download or read book The Medea of Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443855650
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome by : J. Virgilio García

Download or read book Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome written by J. Virgilio García and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains twenty-five contributions adapted from papers presented at the International Conference on Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela on 31tst May – 1st June 2012. The book fulfils two principal aims: to highlight the impulse and continuity of a research field that combines Indo-European and Classical Studies, which has generally been recognised for several decades as a very fruitful collaboration, and to provide the academic community with the current results of one of the most important topics of Classical Studies. The first part of the book focuses on the Indo-European tradition, tracking its remnants, particularly in the Classical languages. The Indo-European poetic tradition can be traced through linguistic reconstruction (formulae, onomastics) and some scattered mentions in literary texts. In the second part, the focus is placed on the poetic language in Greece and Rome. The rich and complex tradition of Classical literatures makes a clear-cut description of the inherited or innovative aspects of the religious and literary development more problematical. Ritual or cultic poetry, onomastics, phraseology, paeans and hymns, oracles as divine language, and magic all receive deep and thorough treatment from a reliable ensemble of scholars.

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Principat. v

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
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Book Synopsis Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Principat. v by : Hildegard Temporini

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The Study of Drama in the Highschool

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
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