Medea Clauss, James J; Johnston, Sarah Iles
2020, 1997, 2020-07-07
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From the dawn of European literature, the figure of Medea--best known as the helpmate of Jason and murderer of her own children--has inspired artists in all fields throughout all centuries. ...Euripides, Seneca, Corneille, Delacroix, Anouilh, Pasolini, Maria Callas, Martha Graham, Samuel Barber, and Diana Rigg are among the many who have given Medea life on stage, film, and canvas, through music and dance, from ancient Greek drama to Broadway. In seeking to understand the powerful hold Medea has had on our imaginations for nearly three millennia, a group of renowned scholars here examines the major representations of Medea in myth, art, and ancient and contemporary literature, as well as the philosophical, psychological, and cultural questions these portrayals raise. The result is a comprehensive and nuanced look at one of the most captivating mythic figures of all time. Unlike most mythic figures, whose attributes remain constant throughout mythology, Medea is continually changing in the wide variety of stories that circulated during antiquity. She appears as enchantress, helper-maiden, infanticide, fratricide, kidnapper, founder of cities, and foreigner. Not only does Medea's checkered career illuminate the opposing concepts of self and other, it also suggests the disturbing possibility of otherness within self. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Fritz Graf, Nita Krevans, Jan Bremmer, Dolores M. O'Higgins, Deborah Boedeker, Carole E. Newlands, John M. Dillon, Martha C. Nussbaum, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, and Marianne McDonald.
Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, reception history, poetics, and psychoanalysis, this innovative study shows how the glamour of the historical witch, a ...spell that she cast, was set on a course, over a span of three hundred years from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, to become a generally broadcast glamour of appearance. Something that a woman does, that is, became something that she has. The antique heroine Medea, witch and barbarian, infamous poisoner, infanticide, regicide, scourge of philanderers, and indefatigable traveller, serves as the vehicle of this development. Revived on the stage of modernity by La Péruse in the sixteenth century, Corneille in the seventeenth, and the operatic composer Cherubini in the eighteenth, her stagecraft and her witchcraft combine, author Amy Wygant argues, to stun her audience into identifying with her magic and making it their own. In contrast to previous studies which have relied upon contemporary printed sources in order to gauge audience participation in and reaction to early modern theater, Wygant argues that psychoanalytic thought about the behavior of groups can be brought to bear on the question of "what happened" when the early modern witch was staged. This cross-disciplinary study reveals the surprising early modern trajectory of our contemporary obsession with magic. Medea figures the movement of culture in history, and in the mirror of the witch on the stage, a mirror both appealing and appalling, our own cultural performances are reflected. It concludes with an analysis of Diderot's claim that the historical process itself is magical, and with the moment in Revolutionary France when the slight and fragile body of the golden-throated singer, Julie-Angélique Scio, became a Medea for modernity: not a witch or a child-murderess, but, as all the press reviews insist, a woman.
By looking at aspects of Medea that are largely overlooked in the criticism, this book aims at an open and multiple reading. It shows that stories presented in the drama of 5th century Athens are not ...unrelated to human beings who actually exist.
Spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression by polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is critical for animal and plant development. The Arabidopsis fertilization independent seed (FIS)-PRC2 complex ...functions specifically during plant reproduction from gametogenesis to seed development. After a double fertilization event, triploid endosperm proliferates early, followed by the growth of a diploid embryo, which replaces the endosperm in Arabidopsis and many dicots. Key genes critical for endosperm proliferation such as IKU2 and MINI3 are activated after fertilization. Here we report that two MADS-box AGAMOUS-LIKE (AGL) proteins associate with the key endosperm proliferation loci and recruit the FIS-PRC2 repressive complex at 4–5 days after pollination (DAP). Interestingly, AGL9 and AGL15 only accumulate toward the end of endosperm proliferation at 4–5 DAP and promote the deposition of H3K27me3 marks at key endosperm proliferation loci. Disruption of AGL9 and AGL15 or overexpression of AGL9 or AGL15 significantly influence endosperm proliferation and cellularization. Genome-wide analysis with cleavage Under Targets and tagmentation (CUT&Tag) sequencing and RNA sequencing revealed the landscape of endosperm H3K27me3 marks and gene expression profiles in Col-0 and agl9 agl15. CUT&Tag qPCR also demonstrated the occupancy of the two MADS-box proteins and FIS-PRC2 on a few representative target loci. Our studies suggest that MADS-box proteins could potentially recruit PRC2 to regulate many other developmental processes in plants or even in fungi and animals.
AGL9 and AGL15 accumulate toward the end of endosperm proliferation and recruit the FIS-PRC2 complex to repress the expression of two key genes for endosperm proliferation. Other key endosperm proliferation loci repressed by the FIS-PRC2 complex are also revealed through CUT&Tag and RNA-seq analysis.
This study shows how the language of lament liberates a woman from a socially constructed murderous identity. By using stylistic analysis and mainly focusing on the method of singing lament, this ...article shows the possibility of undermining the socially constructed identity of the ancient Greek heroine Medea. As the 19th-century thoughts in England about women acquired the most exacerbated misogynist overtones, the problem for the women artists was a desperate search for a new identity and, thus, for language. Two crucial Victorian poets, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster, turned to Greek mythology to explore the collective cultural constructions, recognized the power of lament as a literary device and used it to provide a new perspective to ancient Greek playwright Euripides’ Medea. They formulated their poem using the linguistic and contextual rules of lamentation, such as interrogative questions, alliteration, assonance, phonetic structuring, highly metaphorical language, wordplay, parallelism and antithesis. Due to the figurative devices and deviant use of language, they made the reader witness the melancholy and mourning of heroin. They got the reader to think that they should reconsider Medea. Thus, this study focuses on the poetic language of Levy and Webster to provide a different angle to the concept of identity and give the reader a better sense of what Medea is all about. This article provides critical insight into the power of the language of lament in the deconstruction of rigid and stable identity. Moreover, it shows the critical role that language and the performance of lament play in the construction of the self-perception of the speaking subject.
From the dawn of European literature, the figure of Medea--best known as the helpmate of Jason and murderer of her own children--has inspired artists in all fields throughout all centuries. ...Euripides, Seneca, Corneille, Delacroix, Anouilh, Pasolini, Maria Callas, Martha Graham, Samuel Barber, and Diana Rigg are among the many who have given Medea life on stage, film, and canvas, through music and dance, from ancient Greek drama to Broadway. In seeking to understand the powerful hold Medea has had on our imaginations for nearly three millennia, a group of renowned scholars here examines the major representations of Medea in myth, art, and ancient and contemporary literature, as well as the philosophical, psychological, and cultural questions these portrayals raise. The result is a comprehensive and nuanced look at one of the most captivating mythic figures of all time. Unlike most mythic figures, whose attributes remain constant throughout mythology, Medea is continually changing in the wide variety of stories that circulated during antiquity. She appears as enchantress, helper-maiden, infanticide, fratricide, kidnapper, founder of cities, and foreigner. Not only does Medea's checkered career illuminate the opposing concepts of self and other, it also suggests the disturbing possibility of otherness within self. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Fritz Graf, Nita Krevans, Jan Bremmer, Dolores M. O'Higgins, Deborah Boedeker, Carole E. Newlands, John M. Dillon, Martha C. Nussbaum, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, and Marianne McDonald.
Dentro del arte cinematográfico –a diferencia del literario– el personaje de Medea ha sido llevado a la pantalla desde la ausencia de significaciones condenatorias de carácter moral. La esencia ...primigenia del mito de Medea en el cine se presenta desvinculada del punto de vista filosófico, científico y racional, pues su sentido último escapa, incluso, al propio lenguaje literario. Ciertamente, los más sobresalientes creadores cinematográficos han dado vida a esta figura mitológica en relación con lo inefable, esto es, como arquetipo imaginario productor de sentido: unido a lo simbólico, al silencio, al misterio y al arte.
Dense seismic networks provide the opportunity to better understand seismogenic processes in tectonically active regions. The Algerian Digital Seismic Network was strengthened following the 10 ...October 1980 Ms 7.3 El Asnam and 21 May 2003 Mw 6.8 Bournerdes earthquakes, such that the source parameters of small- to moderate-magnitude earthquakes in northern Algeria can now be computed. Here we examine the 2007 seismic sequence recorded in the Medea region (north-central part of Algeria). We calculate the seismic sources of three moderate events that occurred between May and August 2007 using near-field waveform modeling, and obtain moment magnitudes of 4.4, 4.1, and 4.6, with fault planes oriented N63°E, N15°E, and N219°E, respectively. We use displacement spectra to estimate the corner frequency
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and spectral flat level then use these to recalculate the seismic moment and moment magnitude. The stress tensor obtained by inverting 13 focal mechanisms from events near the 2007 sequence exhibits a well-constrained compressional axis with a subhorizontal N335°E-trending σ
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axis (plunge 7°). We calculate the static stress changes to understand the connections between these three events. The results indicate an interaction between the faults related to these events during the earthquake sequence. We conclude that these events likely occurred on the unstudied extensions of mapped faults, and that the epicentral area therefore has moderate seismogenic potential.
A través de un ejercicio narratológico establecido por medio de la lectura de Beloved y Medea, se busca comprender los mecanismos que conforman la tragedia como género literario, para analizar de qué ...manera la ficción podría constituir un recurso de reparación simbólica de la agencia de comunidades sistemáticamente marginadas, en virtud del uso de la venganza como dispositivo de reivindicación.
Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical ...patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry
Originally published in 1986.
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