Medea
Contributors: James J. Clauss (Editor); Sarah Iles Johnston (Editor)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 23, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780691043760
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Plays & playwrights; Religion; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Antiquities & Archaeology; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Medea (Greek mythology) in literature; Medea (Greek mythology); Ancient and Classical; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; British Literature; Classics; Gender Studies; Literary Criticism-Ancient and Classical; Mind, Body, Spirit; Philosophy / Ancient; Religion / Antiquities & Archaeology; Art; Medea (Greek mythology) in lit; Philosophy, Ancient
First sentence: TO THOSE OF US who have grown up with it, Greek myth seems to consist of stories about individual, noninterchangeable figures-Odysseus, Orestes, or indeed Medea-each of whom seems to have been shaped by a single, authoritative literary work: Homer's Odyssey, Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Medea.