By Jane Cahill
Medea betrayed her father and left her place of birth for the affection of Jason. Then whilst he deserted her, she murdered her teenagers. yet did she? And what of Clytemnestra, the conniving adulteress? For ten years she plotted the homicide of her husband Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and Conqueror of Troy. How could she have informed her tale?
The Greek myths as we all know them have been advised for males via males. but they have been the fruits of an extended oral culture during which either women and men shared. utilizing extant historical literary assets as her advisor, together with the works of Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides and Apollodorus, Jane Cahill reconstructs the tales as they could were advised to girls by means of girls. those are tales of wronged girls, encouraged ladies, made up our minds ladies, delicate ladies. Medusa tells the way it is to understand that one examine her face will flip a guy to stone, to be hated and feared for all time. Jocasta, Queen of Thebes, confesses her love for the younger guy who got here to cave her urban from the Sphinx―her son, Oedipus.
each one tale is observed through vast notes which debate the traditional assets, clarify proper Greek innovations and customs, and function a advisor to extra interpreting.
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Then there is Circe. According to men's stories, just one year of her life had significance, the year Odysseus was her lover. What of all the other years? And Andromache. I am haunted by Andromache. How does it feel to have been the wife of the greatest warrior of Troy, to have seen your only child, a tiny boy, hurled to his death from the walls of your city, to be taken as a slave by the son of the man who killed your beloved husband, and to bear him a child, also a son? These stories demand our attention.
Oral traditions can more readily be obliterated by war, illness, catastrophe, changing fashions, or simple neglect. ) In the case of Greek myth, not only did the oral tradition die, but the literary tradition disappeared also. The growth of Christianity in the Mediterranean area played a large part in the demise of both traditions; the stories, despite their innate ability to change in their oral form, could not change enough and remain "true"so different was the Christian perspective from the classical Greek.
While searching for the dead boy. The pretty metamorphoses aside, this is the story of near-unspeakable violence and horror. Because the nightingale's song is so lovely, we have been lulled into thinking that anything associated with it is sorrowful yet romantic, even charming. But the nightingale is sad because she chopped up her own son and fed him to his father. The charm is hard to find. The tale is told here in the voices of the women. ) They are not birds, though the birds appear in the story.