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- Title
A Narratological Investigation of Ovid's Medea: Met. 7.1-424.
- Authors
LIBATIQUE, DANIEL
- Abstract
In this paper, I apply the methodology of narratological focalization to Ovid's account of Medea in the Metamorphoses (7.1-424), an episode that many scholars have acknowledged as marked by jarring shifts. Focalization allows the reader to trace more subtly and appreciate more fully the step-by-step progression in Medea's character, as the audience's sympathy is gradually alienated from the young girl in love by means of shifting focalizations. I also investigate the neglected Liber vignette (7.294-296) as an important signpost for the murder of Pelias, rather than a retrospective close to the Aeson episode.
- Subjects
METAMORPHOSES (Book : Ovid); OVID, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; SYMPATHY; AESON, King of Iolcus; PELIAS (Greek mythology)
- Publication
Classical World, 2015, Vol 109, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0009-8418
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/clw.2015.0082