Title: Virgo to virago
Description: The infamous and formidable mythological figure of Medea has deservedly held an enduring appeal throughout the ages. This has perhaps never been more true than in the Silver Age of Latin literature, when the taste for rhetorical excess and the macabre made the heroine, and especially her notorious acts of witchcraft and the slaughter of her own children in revenge for her husbandas infidelity, a particularly suitable and attractive topic for literary treatment.
Subjects: Latin poetry, History and criticism, In literature, Criticism and interpretation, Medea (Greek mythology) in literature
People: Medea consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character), Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D), Lucius Annaeus Seneca (approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D), Gaius Valerius Flaccus (active 1st century)