Download or read book Medea PDF or another Format written by Kerry Greenwood and published by Delphic Women. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she falls in love with Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and helps him steal the Golden Fleece, Medea, Princess of Colchis and priestess of Hecate, Thee Named, Lady of Phantoms, sails with him to claim his throne, but things turn tragically wrong and she must attempt to reclaim her humanity through abandonment, murder and grief.
Download or read book Medea PDF or another Format written by James J. Clauss and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of European literature, the figure of Medea--best known as the helpmate of Jason and murderer of her own children--has inspired artists in all fields throughout all centuries. Euripides, Seneca, Corneille, Delacroix, Anouilh, Pasolini, Maria Callas, Martha Graham, Samuel Barber, and Diana Rigg are among the many who have given Medea life on stage, film, and canvas, through music and dance, from ancient Greek drama to Broadway. In seeking to understand the powerful hold Medea has had on our imaginations for nearly three millennia, a group of renowned scholars here examines the major representations of Medea in myth, art, and ancient and contemporary literature, as well as the philosophical, psychological, and cultural questions these portrayals raise. The result is a comprehensive and nuanced look at one of the most captivating mythic figures of all time. Unlike most mythic figures, whose attributes remain constant throughout mythology, Medea is continually changing in the wide variety of stories that circulated during antiquity. She appears as enchantress, helper-maiden, infanticide, fratricide, kidnapper, founder of cities, and foreigner. Not only does Medea's checkered career illuminate the opposing concepts of self and other, it also suggests the disturbing possibility of otherness within self. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Fritz Graf, Nita Krevans, Jan Bremmer, Dolores M. O'Higgins, Deborah Boedeker, Carole E. Newlands, John M. Dillon, Martha C. Nussbaum, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, and Marianne McDonald.
Download or read book Medea PDF or another Format written by Euripides, and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-12-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What I intend to do is wrong, but the rage of my heart is stronger than my reason – that is the cause of all men’s foulest crimes.' Medea is the archetypal wronged woman driven to despair. When uncontrollable anger is unleashed, the obsessed mind’s capacity for revenge knows no bounds. Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole
Euripides: Medea
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-08-15
ISBN 10 : 0521643864
Pages : 446 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (643 users)
Download or read book Euripides: Medea PDF or another Format written by Euripides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of motivation that lead to her tragic insistence on killing her own children, and assesses the potential sympathy of a Greek audience for a character triply marked as other (barbarian, witch, woman). A unique feature of this book is the introduction to tragic language and style. The text, revised for this edition, is accompanied by an abbreviated critical apparatus. The commentary provides morphological and syntactic help for inexperienced students and more advanced observations on vocabulary, rhetoric, dramatic techniques, stage action, and details of interpretation, from the famous debate of Medea and Jason to the 'unmotivated' entrance of Aegeus and the controversial monologue of Medea.
Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle
Author : Hugh Bowden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-05-05
ISBN 10 : 0521823730
Pages : 212 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (823 users)
Download or read book Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle PDF or another Format written by Hugh Bowden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Delphic Oracle was where, according to Greek tradition, Apollo would speak through his priestesses. This work explores the importance placed on consultations at Delphi by Athenians in the city's age of democracy. It demonstrates the extent to which concern to do the will of the gods affected Athenian politics, challenging the notion that Athenian democracy may be seen as a model for modern secular democratic constitutions. All the known consultations of the oracle by Athens in the period before 300 BC are examined, and descriptions of consultations found in Attic tragedy and comedy are discussed. This work provides a new account of how the Delphic oracle functioned and presents a thorough analysis of the relationship between the Athenians and the oracle, making it essential reading both for students of the oracle itself and of Athenian democracy.
The Medea of Euripides
Author : Euripides
Publisher :
Release Date : 1882
ISBN 10 : HARVARD:32044021572821
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.:/5 ( users)
Download or read book The Medea of Euripides PDF or another Format written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Bodily Citations
Author : Ellen T. Armour
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-11
ISBN 10 : 9780231508643
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (231 users)
Download or read book Bodily Citations PDF or another Format written by Ellen T. Armour and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, Bodily Citations is the first anthology centered on applying her theories to religion. In this collection scholars in anthropology, biblical studies, theology, ethics, and ritual studies use Butler's work to investigate a variety of topics in biblical, Islamic, Buddhist, and Christian traditions. The authors shed new light on Butler's ideas and highlight their ethical and political import. They also broaden the scope of religious studies as they bring it into conversation with feminist and queer theory. Subjects discussed include the woman's mosque movement in Cairo, the ordination of women in the Catholic Church, the possibility of queer ethics, religious ritual, and biblical constructions of sexuality. Contributors include: Karen Trimble Alliaume, Lewis University; Teresa Hornsby, Drury University; Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School; Christina Hutchins, Pacific School of Religion; Saba Mahmood, University of California, Berkeley; Susanne Mrozik, Mount Holyoke College; Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida; Rebecca Schneider, Brown University; Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary
Greek and Roman Mythology
Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2009-06-24
ISBN 10 : 9780737746280
Pages : 306 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (737 users)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Mythology PDF or another Format written by Don Nardo and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2009-06-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Don Nardo and Consultant Editor Barbette Spaeth have compiled this volume that provides entries about various aspects of Greek and Roman mythology, grouped in the categories of rulers, heroes, and other human characters. Readers will learn about major and minor gods, animals, monsters, spirits, and forces. Entries cover important places and things, and major myth tellers and their works. Includes retellings of twelve myths.
Seneca: Medea
Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
ISBN 10 : 9780199602087
Pages : 633 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (199 users)
Download or read book Seneca: Medea PDF or another Format written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-scale critical edition of Medea, offering a new Latin text, English verse translation designed for performance and study, and detailed commentary of the play, elucidating the text dramatically and philologically, and locating it in its contemporary historical and theatrical context and in ensuing literary and dramatic traditions.
Medea and Her Sisters
Author : Rosamond Wolff Purcell
Publisher :
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : UCSD:31822037135316
Pages : 24 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (31 users)
Download or read book Medea and Her Sisters PDF or another Format written by Rosamond Wolff Purcell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
The Medea of Euripides, with Notes and an Introduction by F. D. Allen, Etc
Author : Euripides
Publisher :
Release Date : 1876
ISBN 10 : BL:A0026170356
Pages : 152 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (2 users)
Download or read book The Medea of Euripides, with Notes and an Introduction by F. D. Allen, Etc PDF or another Format written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama
Author : John E. Thorburn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 9780816074983
Pages : 689 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (816 users)
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama PDF or another Format written by John E. Thorburn and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
Major World Dramas
Author : Nextext
Publisher : Nextext Anthology
Release Date : 2001-03
ISBN 10 : 061810724X
Pages : 776 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (17 users)
Download or read book Major World Dramas PDF or another Format written by Nextext and published by Nextext Anthology. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Orestes and Other Plays
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
ISBN 10 : 0192832603
Pages : 294 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (832 users)
Download or read book Orestes and Other Plays PDF or another Format written by Euripides and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens, these six plays by Euripides brilliantly utilize traditional legends to illustrate the futility of war. The Children of Heracles holds up a mirror to a contemporary Athens, while Andromache considers the position of women in Greek wartime society. In The Suppliant Women, the difference between a just and an unjust battle is explored, while The Phoenician Women describes the brutal rivalry of the sons of King Oedipus, and the compelling Orestes depicts the guilt caused by vengelful murder. Finally, Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides' last play, contemplates religious sacrifice and the insanity of war. Together, the plays offer a moral and political statement that is at once unique to the ancient world and prophetically relevant to our own."--P. [4] of cover.
Australian Book Review
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Publisher :
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105020777459
Pages : 798 pages
Rating : 4.D/5 ( users)
Download or read book Australian Book Review PDF or another Format written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
Author : Michael Gagarin
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2009-12-31
ISBN 10 : 9780195170726
Pages : 3369 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (195 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome PDF or another Format written by Michael Gagarin and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 3369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome is the clearest and most accessible guide to the world of classical antiquity ever produced. This multivolume reference work is a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world--Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman--from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE. It also covers the legacy of the classical world and its interpretation and influence in subsequent centuries. The Encyclopedia brings the work of the best classical scholars, archaeologists, and historians together in an easy-to-use format. The articles, written by leading scholars in the field, seek to convey the significance of the people, places, and historical events of classical antiquity, together with its intellectual and material culture. Broad overviews of literature, history, archaeology, art, philosophy, science, and religion are complimented by articles on authors and their works, literary genres and periods, historical figures and events, archaeologists and archaeological sites, artists and artistic themes and materials, philosophers and philosophical schools, scientists and scientific areas, gods, heroes, and myths. Areas covered include: · Greek and Latin Literature · Authors and Their Works · Historical Figures and Events · Religion and Mythology · Art, Artists, Artistic Themes, and Materials · Archaeology, Philosophers, and Philosophical Schools · Science and Technology · Politics, Economics, and Society · Material Culture and Everyday Life
Essays on Euripidean Drama
Author : Gilbert Norwood
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-05-27
ISBN 10 : 9780520362697
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (52 users)
Download or read book Essays on Euripidean Drama PDF or another Format written by Gilbert Norwood and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.
