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Granddaughter of the Sun
A Study of Euripides’ Medea
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English
Published/Copyright:
2007
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This book attempts to view Medea in a positive light: looking not just at her failed relationships, but also at her successful ones and commenting on her intellect rather than just her clever manipulations of men. It tries to see her (or her author, who brings Medea home to Athens), as something of a political hero. The work considers the multiple facets of Medea, as the ideal wife, as a loving mother, as a woman among women, and how Medea becomes the author of her own story. The author asks what Medea is in the last scene: a demon or one of us; how she relates to the city-state; why this heroic drama is presented through the voices of two slaves.
Author / Editor information
C.A.E. Luschnig, Ph.D. (1972) in Classics, University of Cincinnati, is Professor Emerita. She has published extensively on Euripides, including Time Holds the Mirror (Brill, 1988) and The Gorgon’s Severed Head (Brill, 1995). She is currently revising An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach.
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eBook published on:
June 30, 2007
eBook ISBN:
9789047420149
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Main content:
220
eBook ISBN:
9789047420149
Keywords for this book
drama; Greek; tragedy; feminist; reading; mythology; language; infanticide; tyranny; marriage; monsters; slavery
Audience(s) for this book
Teachers, scholars, and advanced students of literature, classics, and drama and especially Euripides enthusiasts and those interested in feminist readings of ancient texts.
