A woman with no place: Euripides' Medea in Latin poetry

• Grant number: 18/06554-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: October 01, 2018
• End date: May 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Literatures
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Lucia Sano
• Grantee: Thais Portansky de Lima
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The purpose of the project is to analyze the reception of Euripides' Medea in the book VII of Ovid's Metamorphoses and in the tragic play Medea of Seneca. The focus of Euripides' tragedy is on Jason's betrayal, who breaks a marriage pact to take as his new wife the king of Corinth's daughter, and on Medea's actions to revenge herself. In return for the evil done to her, Medea plans the death of the king and his daughter and murders her own children. Based on the theory of reception and on the concept of imitatio, I intend to investigate how the two Latin authors poetically reconstructed the myth of Medea as conceived by Euripides. Taking into account that the infanticide as introduced by Euripides in his play has no longer abandoned the figure of Medea throughout the history of its reception, this project will investigate the motivations of the infanticide committed by the heroin in the three literary works. (AU)