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The Manipulation of Memory in Apollonius’ Argonautica

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Ancient Memory
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Abstract

Over the course of Book 3 of the Argonautica, Apollonius’ Medea is manipulated into falling in love with and aiding Jason through the joint efforts of Hera, Aphrodite, and Eros. This manipulation takes place successively, beginning with Eros’ love spell which simultaneously burns away Medea’s own wishes and instils in the heroine a deep and destructive love for Jason. At the centre of Eros’ spell is an attack on Medea’s memory; memory also plays a central part in Medea’s grappling with her decision to help Jason. This paper presents a re-examination of the manipulation of Medea and Apollonius’ characterisation of his heroine in light of the poet’s use of memory as a narrative device. Through this, Medea is first divested of her agency and, eventually, reclaims this with an active and conscious wielding of her own memory, a striking act of metapoetic awareness which brings her closer to other epic heroes and heroines, and one which ties closely into the Argonautica’s inter- and intra-textual makeup.

Abstract

Over the course of Book 3 of the Argonautica, Apollonius’ Medea is manipulated into falling in love with and aiding Jason through the joint efforts of Hera, Aphrodite, and Eros. This manipulation takes place successively, beginning with Eros’ love spell which simultaneously burns away Medea’s own wishes and instils in the heroine a deep and destructive love for Jason. At the centre of Eros’ spell is an attack on Medea’s memory; memory also plays a central part in Medea’s grappling with her decision to help Jason. This paper presents a re-examination of the manipulation of Medea and Apollonius’ characterisation of his heroine in light of the poet’s use of memory as a narrative device. Through this, Medea is first divested of her agency and, eventually, reclaims this with an active and conscious wielding of her own memory, a striking act of metapoetic awareness which brings her closer to other epic heroes and heroines, and one which ties closely into the Argonautica’s inter- and intra-textual makeup.

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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Acknowledgements IX
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Part I: The Mechanics of Memory
  7. Taking a Walk through Rome…: Comedic Itineraries and Early Republican Spatial Memory 19
  8. Quoting from Memory? Shared Knowledge in Cicero’s Book Fragments of Accius’ Atreus 41
  9. Part II: Collective Memory
  10. Memories of Glory: Poetry, Prose, and Commemoration in the Heraclidae 71
  11. Ovid’s Poetics of Memory and Oblivion in his Exilic Poetry 89
  12. The Memory of Marcus Regulus and Cannae in Plautus’ Captivi 103
  13. Divine Memories and the Shaping of Olympus in the Iliad 123
  14. Part III: Female Memory
  15. The Manipulation of Memory in Apollonius’ Argonautica 145
  16. Bound to Break Boundaries: Memory and Identity in Seneca’s Medea 165
  17. Audita mente notaui: (Meta)memory, Gender, and Pastoral Impersonation in the Speech of Ovid’s Galatea 193
  18. Part IV: Oblivion
  19. Ovid’s Labyrinthine Ars: Pasiphae and the Dangers of Poetic Memory in the Metamorphoses 219
  20. Divine Memory, Mortal Forgetfulness and Human Misfortune 247
  21. Forgetfulness as a Narrative Device in Herodotus’ Histories 267
  22. Part V: Further Thoughts
  23. Memory and its Discontents in Ancient Literature 293
  24. List of Contributors 309
  25. Index Rerum et Nominum 313
  26. Index Locorum 315
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110728798-008

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Acknowledgements IX
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Part I: The Mechanics of Memory
  7. Taking a Walk through Rome…: Comedic Itineraries and Early Republican Spatial Memory 19
  8. Quoting from Memory? Shared Knowledge in Cicero’s Book Fragments of Accius’ Atreus 41
  9. Part II: Collective Memory
  10. Memories of Glory: Poetry, Prose, and Commemoration in the Heraclidae 71
  11. Ovid’s Poetics of Memory and Oblivion in his Exilic Poetry 89
  12. The Memory of Marcus Regulus and Cannae in Plautus’ Captivi 103
  13. Divine Memories and the Shaping of Olympus in the Iliad 123
  14. Part III: Female Memory
  15. The Manipulation of Memory in Apollonius’ Argonautica 145
  16. Bound to Break Boundaries: Memory and Identity in Seneca’s Medea 165
  17. Audita mente notaui: (Meta)memory, Gender, and Pastoral Impersonation in the Speech of Ovid’s Galatea 193
  18. Part IV: Oblivion
  19. Ovid’s Labyrinthine Ars: Pasiphae and the Dangers of Poetic Memory in the Metamorphoses 219
  20. Divine Memory, Mortal Forgetfulness and Human Misfortune 247
  21. Forgetfulness as a Narrative Device in Herodotus’ Histories 267
  22. Part V: Further Thoughts
  23. Memory and its Discontents in Ancient Literature 293
  24. List of Contributors 309
  25. Index Rerum et Nominum 313
  26. Index Locorum 315
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