Table of Contents

1. Introducing Medea 2. Mythology and Sources 3. Key Themes: Origins, Folktale and Structuralism 4. Key Themes: Witchcraft, Children and Divinity 5. Key Themes: Ethinicity, Gender and Philosophy 6. Euripides' Version of Myth 7. Myth about Myth: From Greece to Rome 8. Medea Afterwards: Medea after Greece and Rome 9. Medea Afterwards: Medea in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Guide to Further Reading. Bibliography

About the Author

Emma Griffiths is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester.