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 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- Euripides
- Hélia Correia
- Medea
- Nomos/physis
- Barbarism
- Ichor