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Medea: Greek myth and peculiar identity
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This paper will primarily focus on the philosophical depictions of Medea’s character and actions. The following identities will be examined: gender (which...
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This paper reads Medea’s identity through three frames—gender/marriage, foreignness/political belonging, and excessive emotion/psyche—using Euripides and Seneca alongside ancient philosophy. It argues Medea’s identity is unstable and excessive, eluding fixed determination, and that her self-becoming as “Medea” is tied to violence, especially killing her children.
Key findings
- The paper examines three identities: gender (roles defining women in antiquity), political (what it means to be a foreigner outside a political community), and psychological (whether passions split or constitute the psyche), treating Medea as an exceptional “(in)humanness” in Greco-Roman society.
- On marriage, Medea is in a state of ἀπορία—both married and unmarried—after Jason abandons her; her marriage, born from a heroic but criminal act, can only be resolved through crime or violence, and she cannot recover the dowry she brought.
- On foreignness, Medea is a barbarian, foreigner, and refugee; Greeks projected undesirable qualities onto outsiders, making her a mirror/renegade, while Stoic cosmopolitanism would make her a citizen of the world, though as a fugitive she acts against nature.
- On emotion, Euripides’ Medea knows the evil she is about to do but says her raging heart is stronger than her plans; Stoics see her as a unified rational soul out of control, Plato as split between reason and passion, and recent readings see a complex interplay. She becomes Medea by killing her children, ceasing to be a mother.
Methods
- Philosophical and classical textual analysis, not empirical research; it interprets Euripides’ and Seneca’s *Medea* in parallel with ancient sources (Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epictetus, Seneca, etc.) and modern scholarship.
- The analysis is organized around three identity frames: Medea as a married woman, as a female foreigner, and as someone prone to excessive emotions or passions; it also compares Greek and Roman social/legal positions, such as Roman women’s greater rights and dowry rules.
- No sample, dataset, or quantitative analysis is reported; evidence is literary, philosophical, and legal texts.
Limitations
- The authors state that their analyses “remain deficient in their attempt to substantiate all the complexity of her case” and suggest future frameworks such as intersectionality and Karen Barad’s interference patterns.
- Evident from the text: the study is interpretive and text-based, with no empirical data or systematic sampling, relying on ancient literary/philosophical sources and secondary scholarship.
- Evident from the text: the authors note they deal with Medea while she is still in a relationship with Jason, not after she left him, as that is a different story and myth.
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“But, the first but, not all women were positioned and treated according to the previously mentioned description.”
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“Even more intriguing is the mask's history as a tool for assuming different identities in religious rituals, orgies, and festivals held in honor of the god Dionysus (Du Toit 1997).”
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“However, her Achilleslike heroic attributes had not been met with a comparable admiration, because “her gender complicates this issue” (Blondell 1999, 164).”
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“Some philosophers like Aristotle go as far as to consider a woman not having a fully developed mind and thus representing an immature child (cf.Arist.Pol.1260 ab).”
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“Her position is such that she requests what she cannot have back in order to divorce from Jason (“I am leaving; give me back what is mine,” Sen. Med.4889).”
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“Since antiquity, Medea's name has been associated with μήδεσθαι (i.e., the verb μήδομαι), meaning cunning plotting and contriving, making her an archetypal example of a barbarian woman who schemes and deceives, cheats by using a trick, or commits (un)expected fraud (cf.OCD s.v.Medea; LSJ).”
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“Sometimes she resembles the wild and terrifying Maenads, the women who follow Dionysus in a state of ecstasy and frenzy after they ceremonially leave the city (Bell 1991(Bell , 2878;;OCD s.v. maenads).”
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“She asks for mercy and to not be left alone in a foreign country (Sen.Med.119; Sen. Med.447).”
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“Unlike women in Greece, women in Rome were visible, because Roman women had more rights and greater independence.”
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“it seems that philosophy cannot even exist without myth.”
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“Medea can be a woman of Greece as well as a woman of Rome, and it seems that Euripides' Medea is more of a Greek woman and Seneca's more of a Roman woman.”
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“The myth of Medea fascinated the Greeks and Romans, to the point that “philosophers and orators returned to her obsessively” (Harris 2004, 131), and it continues to fascinate modern readers.”
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“Medea is the only woman among the Argonauts, and she makes political as well as military decisions -for what is war if not an attack on a sovereign, an invasion of his territory by a foreigner, and the theft of one of his greatest treasures?”
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“The mask played a magical role in the transformation of the social order, which could not only be imagined, but also sometimes physically, bodily, and sensually experienced, allowing one to get a taste of the social world as it might be (Du Toit 1997).”
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“Medea appears to be violent not only in front of and to others; she is also violent towards her own nature.”
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“Her use of her magical powers to help Jason complete his mission elevated her to the ranks of men, as well as heroines, and made her his “partner in crime.””
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“displaying “many stereotypically Greek male attributes, such as courage, intelligence, decisiveness, resourcefulness, power, independence, and the ability to conceive and carry out a plan effectively.In these qualities she surpasses every male character in the play” (Blondell 1999, 162).”
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“Despite her Asian origins, she was settled and worshiped in Athens (OCD s.v.Hecate).”
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“Like the mythical Odysseus, she disrupts the established support structures,foot_3 both her own and Jason's (by killing his second wife and her father King Creon).”
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“It is Medea, not Jason or Hercules -to name a few Argonauts -who is responsible for acquiring the Golden Fleece, and for Argo sailing home safely with its crew (Sen.Med.238).”
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“The Amazon women are also of Asian origin, as well as Medea, who, at least in one version of the tragedy -Seneca's -was portrayed as a woman of supernatural powers, as a witch, as a woman asking for the fulfillment of her prophecies, as a woman both unconstrained and untamed.”
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“The audience understands that the actor behind the mask is not the same person as the character they represent, but that does not stop them from immersing themselves in the play and reacting and cathartically relieving themselves as if they were a reallife character.”
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“By committing violence against those who have power over her but should also represent her support structure, she commits violence against the biological (her own blood) and the political (her homeland, the community) inside her.”
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“All of this, however, does not change the fact that there are numerous examples to the contrary, indicating that the women in Kitto's examples are merely and predominantly an exception to the rule.”
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“During those festivities, anyone could be anyone, including the social position opposite their own, so the social order was turned upside down: ordinary people could be gods, kings could be beggars, women could be men, and so on.”
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“Of course, she is a foreigner in both cases, a “barbarian” from Colchis on the Black Sea and an immigrant on the margins of Corinthian societyfoot_2 (Blondell 1999).”
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“Medea is also someone who invokes Hecate and other divinities associated with marriage (“O gods of marriage!”:Sen. Med.1), such as Juno and Athens -goddesses whom Jason also invoked on their wedding day when he made his vow to Medea.”
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“if the sources were read more carefully (and more methodically), we would see that there is tenderness in marriage; that spouses conversed and not just shared the marital bed; that wives were not completely excluded from city life; that women were not mere prisoners; and that some women were probably even respected, mourned, and grieved over when they died too young”
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“Stoicism holds that caring for one's offspring is natural and inherent, which is one of the reasons Seneca deemed her behavior unnatural.”
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“Some of these questions lead to a discussion of Medea's character, which appears to have changed between her first and last meeting with Jason, at least in the sense that she committed her first evildoings while she was young and motivated by love, as she herself said, while the rest she committed as a mature woman and driven by revenge and anger.”
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“At the same time, Medea calls upon the “Chaos of Endless Night” and cold Persephone (the “queen abducted”), as well as her ancestor Helios.She also summons Furies, for they punish sinners (“O vengeful Furies, punisher of sinners”: Sen. Med.13), and one such sinner is, obviously, her husband Jason.”
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“In the theater, identity is presented through a mask, a “persona,” which serves the purpose of identifying a character on the stage (Elliot 1982).”
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“She does not hesitate to use violence against her family, first against her primary family (father and brother), then her secondary family (husband).”
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“It seems that every Athenian house had a spot dedicated to this goddess, and “only women” engaged with her (Slapšak 2013, 88).”
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“If we consider the stage to be a metaphor for social life, we can perceive identity as inherently linked to a certain tension between a person (their authentic “I”) and their social role.”
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“As Medea thoroughly explains, she brought a dowry into her willful marriage with Jason, a dowry that is treasure or that which is most valuable to her father | 53 | (the Golden Fleece and his son, her brother), then her homeland, but also her shame, a dowry that cannot be returned to her (see Sen. Med.480 90).”
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“Medea will become Medea when she ceases to be a mother, because she was made a mother by Jason, whom she wishes to take vengeance on.”
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“If this is true, then Medea, despite her actions, is no stranger to the world, at least no more than any other human.”
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“Women could be, and from the Ancient times onwards are traditionally understood as “the other tribe, born from other races and the imagination of illdisposed gods,” or as the beings “who cause disorder in the world of men” (Slapšak 2013, 13).”
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“This complex angry, passionate, yet calculated Medea, represents an ultimate threat to patriarchal society, one reflected in a woman's subjectivity and independent will.”
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“However, she bypasses simple positions that we would forcefully impose in order to understand her.”
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“Remember, this is what she has been doing the entire time: she consciously chooses to kill her children, she consciously chooses love and crime out of love at the start of her relationship with Jason, and then she consciously chooses anger.”
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“She uncovers male anxiety about women's will and sexual autonomy, which, given her status as a witch, are viewed as expressions of demonic/evil power (Blondell 1999, 151).”
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“Medea appears to be constantly striving to become what she is not (still), as much as being a person torn between two extremes.”
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“Medea is a negative, an exception that exposes the rule, debunking societal projections to the outsiders as the reflection of the society's own making.In that respect, Medea might be regarded as the renegade of Greek society, acting as its mirror.”
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“Seneca's version emphasizes that the Colchidian princess becomes Medea (“Now, I am Medea”: Sen. Med.910) only when she commits a more heinous crime than all her previous ones, only when her identity, i.e. who she is, evolves through the suffering she is subjected to -“My nature has grown with my suffering” (Sen.Med.910).”
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“Roman Stoic Epictetus would argue that Medea should have known better, and thus bears moral responsibility.”
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“Medea suffers and is enraged as a result.”
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“Additionally, this suffering could be interpreted as a woman's, when Medea appeals to the chorus of Corinthian women for compassion and solidarity: “Of all those beings capable of life and thought, we women are most miserable of living things” (Eur.Med.2302), after which they express sympathy for her “misfortune” and promise to keep her revenge quiet.”
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“However, she acts in ignorance, and her ignorance is reflected in the fact that she does not know, at least from a Stoic perspective, what she can and cannot influence; because if she did know this, she would have realized that Jason is not hers and that she has no control over him, only over herself (cf.Epict.Diss.2.17.2122;Epict.Diss.1.1).”
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“Jason, despite being from another Greek polis, is not a barbarian and thus does not fully comprehend her situation.”
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“Roman women appear to have had some influence over their tutors (husbands or other legal representatives) and could choose whom they married.In addition, they could ask for substitute tutors in absence of their own and, for example, “when the tutor refused to authorise a contract the woman wanted to make, she could appeal to the praetor and the latter would force the tutor to admit the contract” (”
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“A woman, on the other hand, could not take advantage of this privilege, meaning she could not participate in the affairs of the polis.”
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“To reiterate, Roman women had more rights than Greek women.This can be seen in Roman laws, and some scholars go so far as to claim that the women of ancient Rome were, legally speaking, emancipated, meaning equal to men (but only before the arrival of Christianity), although “they were under the jurisdiction of a tutor” or guardian who looked over them and their businesses (Vigneron & Gerknes 2000”
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“For Seneca, suffering is always something immoderate, something over the top, something that is an excess for both an individual and a society that strives to be average and balance emotions in order to function.”
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- Not matchedcites Sen.Med.603
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“Medea, unlike an Athenian woman or a woman of some other Greek polis, is not even Greek; she is a foreigner, someone whose language and culture are not entirely comprehensive.”
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“The Stoics would argue that Medea does not have separate and different desires and forces within her, that she is always one, and that it would be incorrect to regard her as different from one moment to the next (cf.Annas 2020).”
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“interpret Medea's struggle not as something inherently divided and contradictory (reason vs. passion), but as something rather complex in operation, whereby two sides of her motivation are not separate and opposite -they play in concert when she makes a horrific decision (Foley 1989).”
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“Medea is not just a representative of a foreigner, but also the way in which a foreigner is treated.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Foreign women bring with them a risk; in certain societies, they cannot even produce children who can be full members of society, including Sparta and Athens during some periods.
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“This makes Medea and Jason equal partners who have united in mutual adventure, as previously explained.”
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“Medea thus represents Dionysian principle: she is unruly and immodest, wild and defiant of conventional laws (cf.OCD s.v.Dionysus).”
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“There is no inner division, only actions based on what appear to be the best reasons (she does not want to leave her children, become a refugee along with her children, etc.).”
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“Unlike the Stoics, Plato would say that Medea's irrational side outweighed her rational side, and that Medea is not a unified whole.”
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“Even then, Medea is rational, because the human soul as a whole is rational, whereas emotions are simply a manner/expression of a person's psychical state (see also Nusbaum 2009Nusbaum [1994]], 449).”
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“late Roman Stoic Aurelius asserts that the soul of each man [human being] is fundamental ly the same as the souls of other human beings (cf.Aur.Med.4.29) -im plying that a human soul is rational, and that this is what unites all people (including slaves, foreigners, rulers, beggars, men, and women).”
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- Not matchedcites Aur.Med.4.29
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“Medea is a single, undivided human being, just like everybody else, with all their virtues and flaws or vices, and everything that happens inside her takes place on the same stage where we can think one thing one moment and something else the next.”
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“On the one hand, griefstricken by the betrayal and broken promises, Medea appears as a stereotypical Greek woman preoccupied with love and marriage, and on the other, we see her as “the masculine Hellenic barbarian” (Blondell 1999, 166), enraged and revengeful.”
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- Not matchedcites Blondell 1999
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“Jason's and Medea's marriage, which is still in effect, is a marriage born out of a heroic but also criminal act and can only be resolved through crime or violence.”
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“According to myths, the first woman -Pandora -was like that (cf.Vernan 2002).”
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“Medea exemplifies the absolute nature of love -which is founded on the absolute destruction of the primary family and absolute vengeance when this love and loyalty are betrayed by her partner -rather than a conventional, arranged marriage (Ato Quayson, pers.comm.).”
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“It is unclear when the wedding took place, but it appears undeniable that Medea and Jason were married and that their marriage was consumed.The norm was, therefore, met.”
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“Philosophers liked to assert that the distinctive feature of the humans or human ψυχή is rationality (see, for example Arist.Nic.Eth.1012ab; Diog.Laert.7.110; Epict.Diss.2.9.2), that humans could be seen as rational animals (see also Annas 1993, 160), i.e. that they differ from other animals or living things in their rationality (making them similar to gods, the Stoics would say; Diog.Laert.7.8588”
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- Not matchedcites Epict.Diss.2.9.2
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“But what Medea constantly delivers is excess, probably best understood through patterns of interference by Karen Barad (Barad & DeKoven 2001), which are constraining as well as enabling, nonexhaustive and undetermined, yet always open for surprise.”
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- Not matchedcites Barad & DeKoven 2001
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“She could have chosen to interpret her situation and hopelessness differently, thereby avoiding her fall.”
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“In divorce cases, Roman women kept the dowry they brought to their marriage.That is “their husbands were obliged to give the dowry back in the case of a marriage's dissolution” and in such cases “the wife was certain to get her dowry back” (Vigneron & Gerknes 2000, 112).”
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“By becoming again whom she wants to become, Medea commits violence and thereby, we would argue, undermines the institution of marriage, the institution that should principally protect her.”
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“Any attempt to ascertain her identity in advance is doomed to failure because it eludes us in its inconstancy.”
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“According to legal documents of the Athenian polis, the guardian (mostly the father) “gave the woman in marriage -and a dowry with her,” and “if there was a divorce, the dowry returned with the wife to the guardian” (Kito 2008, 261).”
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In Ancient Greece, women were defined by characteristics such as invisibility, domestic confinement, silence, ignorance, servitude, passivity, and being subjects of contract and social arrangement.
“In Ancient Greece, though not exclusively there and then, a woman was defined by a number of characteristics, including being invisible, in the house, on the margins, on the sidelines, out of the way of curious eyes, ignorant, silent, the one who gives birth, a slave, a servant, endurant, a subject of contract 2 and social arrangement, an outcast, passive, the one who dies young, a girl but still”
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Divorce was more common among Roman women than among women in Euripides' time, especially among Roman aristocratic women.
“Divorce was more common among Roman women than among women in Euripides' time, especially among Roman aristocratic women (and we could imagine Medea as an aristocrat; after all, she is the daughter of a king).”
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In accordance with being a barbarian, Medea's actions are quite the opposite to those of a typical Greek woman, and similar to the actions of barbarian women.
“If we recall the definition of a typical Greek woman at the beginning of the previous section (housebound, invisible, silent, and at disposal of the familial and societal need), we very much assume that, in accordance with being a barbarian, Medea's actions are quite the opposite to those of a typical Greek woman, and similar to the actions of barbarian women.”
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Foreign women bring with them a risk; in certain societies, they cannot even produce children who can be full members of society, including Sparta and Athens during some periods.
“Foreign women bring with them a risk.In certain societies, they cannot even produce children who can be full members of society.Such societies include that of Sparta, and also of Athens during some periods.”
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Seneca forbids a woman from taking her children with her, which is in conformity with Roman law, because the father, not the mother, decided on the fate of the children.
“Seneca forbids a woman from taking her children with her, which is in conformity with Roman law, because the father, not the mother, decided on the fate of the children.”
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That One Should Disdain Hardships
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- Authors
- Plecas, T., & Djordjevic, A.
- Affiliations
- Univerzitet u Beogradu, Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
- University of Belgrade (RS)
- Venue
- Glasnik Etnografskog instituta
- Publisher
- National Library of Serbia
- Published
- 2023
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 45-62
- ISSN
- 0350-0861 (ISSN-L)
- 2334-8259
- OpenAlex
- W4380080512
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Glasnik Etnografskog instituta (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Repository of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Classical Philosophy and Thought
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › General Arts and Humanities › Cultural and Mythological Studies
- Keywords
- Medea, Greek mythology, Greco-Roman philosophy, gender roles, women in antiquity, inhumanity, identity
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