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
Biography
Emma Griffiths is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester.
"The writing is clear and engaging throughout and left this reader far more interested in Medea upon finishing the book than when he began it."
-David B. Hollander, Iowa State University
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Volume 2, Number 1 (Summer 2007)
"[This] is the best up-to-date overview and an excellent starting point for further research.Compact and rich overview of this multifaceted heroine in ancient texts, cults, and images, and in later European traditions. It includes intelligent analyses of current scholarship on Medea, a good bibliography, and suggestions for further reading."
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