Abstract
Euripides innovated by using a Medea of heroic mentality, filicidal, but with divine support, to discuss the paradoxes of Greek womanhood, dependent on a male nómos. Helia follows him, discussing female love in an oppressive setting, and exposes the divine ichor as the cause of Medea’s anti-physis madness.
Translated title of the contribution | Human light and divine obscurity: he exercise of mesure and excess in Helia Correia’ Medea |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Title of host publication | Casas, património, civilização. Nomos-Physis no pensamento grego |
Editors | Maria de Fátima Silva, Maria das Graças de Moraes Augusto, Maria do Céu Zambujo Fialho |
Place of Publication | Coimbra |
Publisher | Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra |
Pages | 331-342 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Volume | 1 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789892618395 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789892618388 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- Euripides
- Hélia Correia
- Medea
- Nomos/physis
- Barbarism
- Ichor