Medea

Informationen zum Autor Emma Griffiths is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introducing Medea 2. Mythology and Sources 3. Key Themes: Origins, Folktale and Structuralism 4. Key Themes: Witchcraft, Children and Divinity 5. Key Themes: Ethinicity, Gender and Philosophy 6. Euripides' Version of Myth 7. Myth about Myth: From Greece to Rome 8. Medea Afterwards: Medea after Greece and Rome 9. Medea Afterwards: Medea in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Guide to Further Reading. Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Emma Griffiths, Griffiths Emma
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2005
• EAN: 9780415300698
• ISBN: 978-0-415-30069-8
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; HISTORY / Civilization, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Classical texts, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient, classical and medieval texts