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This paper analyses the intertextual relations between some passages of the Medea cento and Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, a relationship mediated by Virgil’s Aeneid, the poetic langue of Hosidius’ cento. The numerous Virgilian allusions... more
Il lavoro di Giulio Angioni si e mosso costantemente tra antropologia e letteratura. I due campi permettono di cogliere livelli elevati di complessita e di profondita su tematiche talvolta comuni. E il caso di Assandira e dei testi... more
- by Carlo Maxia
- Art, Medea
Abstract In 1981, the Spanish playwright Luis Riaza published the play Medea es un buen chico (Medea is a Good Boy). In it, two male actors perform the main roles of Medea and the Nurse, who comment, with references to other fictional... more
This study investigates the adoption of Euripides’ and Seneca's versions of Medea. In the study, there is used a comparative analysis between Euripides’ and Seneca’s versions of Medea. Besides the comparative analysis, there is made a... more
2013 A critical reading of Bartlett's Medea 2012
RESUMEN: Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar relaciones intratextuales entre las epístolas de Dido (Ep. VII) y Medea (Ep. XII), pertenecientes al corpus de las Heroidas, de Ovidio. Para ello, nos centraremos en los puntos de... more
Representations of Medea in 17th- and 18th-century French painting and art criticism The article’s aim is to analyse three paintings (those of Pierre, de Vanloo and Delacroix) and a drawing attributed to Poussin, all of which have Medea... more
La presente indagine 'Violenza domestica e di prossimità, i numeri oltre il genere, anno 2017' ha lo scopo di mostrare un quadro d'insieme delle morti violente causate da chi avrebbe dovuto proteggere, amare, o anche solo accompagnare per... more
Il contributo illustra l'approccio esegetico di Miguel de Unamuno nel suo lavoro di traduzione della Medea senecana. In particolare, ci si sofferma sulla fedeltà dell'autore spagnolo al testo originale, sì da evidenziare come la... more
Although cooking has been regarded as a basic feminine domestic labour, with male labour displayed in the public space, there is little literary mention of the activities of ancient Greek women in the kitchen. As a consequence, the... more
Both alive and writing during the time of Nero, Petronius and Seneca each help define the era’s signature age of excess. Their biggest characters, Trimalchio and Medea, respectively, are, on the surface, similar in their extravagance and... more
An assessment of some momentous re-interpretations of Medea’s myth in the XXth Century.
El presente trabajo gira alrededor de la naturaleza transgresora de las heroínas trágicas Antígona y Medea, sin embargo, plantea la pregunta de si el hecho de que sean representantes de la transgresión del ideal femenino basta para que... more
The primary objective of this study is the historical value of the comedies by Aristophanes. It discusses the aspects of slavery in terms of social status and also seeks to examine master and mistress-slave relationships, where possible.... more
13- ISABELLE STENGERS – SOUVIENS TOI QUE JE SUIS MEDEE 14- LAURENT GAUDÉ – MÉDÉE KALI 15- LUDMILA ULITSKAYA – MEDEA AND HER CHILDREN 16- STEVEN WEISENBURGER – MODERN MEDEA, A FAMILY STORY OF SLAVERY AND CHILD-MURDER FROM THE OLD SOUTH 17-... more
From the very initial versions of the saga of the Argonauts, the figure of Medea-bearer of superior knowledge expressed in her exceptional intellect-seems to be just as much of a cultural hero as Jason. Actually, Medea was a mythical... more
En Medea encontramos lo monstruoso que lleva a clasificarla como “inhumana”. Esto se debe, principalmente, a la unión de los rasgos masculinos y femeninos que presenta este personaje desde el mito y las siguientes versiones: tanto la... more
A paper about the position of Medea in the play of Euripides and movie of Pasolini.
Is Medea a monstrous entity? And if she is, to what extent? In attempting to answer these questions, this paper will focus on the representative strategies adopted by Euripides’ Medea, Hesiod’s Theogony and Apollonius Rhodius’... more
George Kakavas, Witches of the stars and Sorceresses of the Hypati. Legends and Traditions. In ancient times Thessaly was famous for its powerful witches and for its horses. Grandmothers of the area narrated tales, of which the main... more
The paper is about Medea's visual metamorphoses through centuries. The purpose of the paper was to show general tendencies - how image of Medea changed through centuries, to what extent it depended on knowledge about Colchis and Colchians... more
This paper explores Seneca’s representation of Medea both in relation to Euripides’ re-shaping of Greek myth and as an expression of Roman cultural differences. Euripides masculinizes Medea, having her break several gender boundaries in... more
di Noemi Ghetti - In libreria l’opera di Plutarco 'Virtù delle donne' nella quale si rinvengono le tracce di un fiero e spregiudicato universo femminile arcaico mediterraneo e mediorientale. Le sue donne sono spesso “virtuose” in modo... more
Esej ukazujący kolejne wizerunki postaci Medei w utworach Eurypidesa, Apolloniusza z Rodos, Owidiusza, Seneki i Drakoncjusza.
La dualità o complessità caratteriale di Medea non risiede solo nell'antica tragedia omonima di Euripide. Essa possiede una sua irriducibile psicologia archetipica, che in parte già si intravede nel mito originario e si riverbera in quasi... more
La più importante testimonianza poetica (integra) anteriore alle Argonautiche e contenente una porzione di testo dedicato all'antichissimo 2 mito degli Argonauti sufficientemente estesa per poter essere messa a confronto con l'opera di... more
Α brief commentary (in Modern Greek) on the sorcery scene (Act IV) in Seneca, "Medea" with emphasis on and in comparison to various literary motifs related to magic, dreams, ghosts and other unrealistic elements.
The article "Heiner Müller 's "Medeamaterial" by Michael Marmarinos" is published in the Proceedings of the International Conference "Medea in World Artistic Culture". The article deals with the performance staged by Michael Marmarinos... more
The Duchess of Malfi’s heroic self-assertion in Act 4 of John Webster’s tragedy (‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’) closely echoes Seneca’s Medea (‘Medea remains still’), pointing to some deeper but hitherto unexplored thematic and structural... more
Volume n. 8 della collana I Grandi miti greci, pubblicata da Il Corriere della Sera (27.02.2018)