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What is Euripides' Medea : the incarnation of disorder about?

This book examines the implications of Medea's murder of her children and attempts to establish the centrality of that act in Euripides' design. The author stresses the importance of trophe--the mutual bond of dependency between parent and child, between city-state and citizen--as a fundamental adhesive force in civilization, shockingly subverted by the playwright's presentation of a mother destroying her children

Author

Emily A. McDermott

Publisher

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271006475

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24