INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. PREFACE 9
4. ABBREVIATIONS 11
5. INTRODUCTION 17
6. PART I: MYTHIC REPRESENTATIONS
7. 1 Medea, the Enchantress from Afar: Remarks on a Well-Known Myth 35
8. 2 Corinthian Medea and the Cult of Hera Akraia 58
9. 3 Medea as Foundation-Heroine 85
10. 4 Why Did Medea Kill Her Brother Apsyrtus? 97
11. PART II: LITERARY PORTRAITS
12. 5 Medea as Muse: Pindar's Pythian 4 117
13. 6 Becoming Medea: Assimilation in Euripides 141
14. 7 Conquest of the Mephistophelian Nausicaa: Medea's Role in Apollonius' Redefinition of the Epic Hero 163
15. 8 The Metamorphosis of Ovid's Medea 192
16. PART III: UNDER PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION
17. 9 Medea among the Philosophers 225
18. 10 Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca's Medea 233
19. PART IV: BEYOND THE EURIPIDEAN STAGE
20. 11 Medea at a Shifting Distance: Images and Euripidean Tragedy 267
21. 12 Medea as Politician and Diva: Riding the Dragon into the Future 311
22. BIBLIOGRAPHY 339
23. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 365
24. INDEX LOCORUM 367
25. GENERAL INDEX 383