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Medea is often cited as an example of the "madwoman in the attic" trope, in which women who defy societal norms are portrayed as mentally unstable. [17] A competing interpretation is that Medea kills her children because she cares for them and worries about their well-being; once she commits to her plan to kill Creon and Jason's new bride, she ...
Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of about 1027 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It is generally considered to be the strongest of his earlier plays. [ 1 ] It was written around 50 CE.
Medea in a fresco from Herculaneum. Medea is a direct descendant of the sun god Helios (son of the Titan Hyperion) through her father King Aeëtes of Colchis.According to Hesiod (Theogony 956–962), Helios and the Oceanid Perseis produced two children, Circe and Aeëtes. [5]
H. M. Hoover, The Dawn Palace: The Story of Medea (1988) Percival Everett, For Her Dark Skin (1990) Kerry Greenwood, Medea: Book I in the Delphic Women Series (1997). Christa Wolf, Medea (published in German 1996, translated to English 1998) [6] Medea plays a major role as an antagonist in Stuart Hill's The Icemark Chronicles trilogy.
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Yet Medea, similarly to Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra, another "woman with a heart of manly counsel" [11] were not admired but portrayed as "Cruella de Vil" type characters; [12] Medea having murdered the King of the Corinthians, his daughter (Jason's new bride) and her two sons for the purpose of taking revenge on Jason. [13]
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Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity is a 1975 feminist history book by Sarah B. Pomeroy. The work covers the lives of women in antiquity from the Greek Dark Ages to the death of Constantine the Great. [1] The book was one of the first English works on women's history in any period. [2]