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Tuesday 22nd November 2011, 6.30-8.00pm
Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre
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The Colchian princess Medea was a popular topic among Roman writers. In love with the Greek hero Jason, Medea helped him gain the Golden Fleece and was later abandoned by him for a new wife, which made her kill her own children. This subject matter was taken over from Greek literature, but Latin writers also gave Medea a range of different faces in various contexts and literary genres. A survey of a number of treatments from the beginning of Latin literature to the end of the first century CE will show the multifacetedness of this figure in the hands of Latin writers.
