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SUMMARY:Myth\, Misogyny\, and Magic: Mansplaining Medea in the Middle Ages
  - Dr Adam Goldwyn
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CONTACT:Benjamin Folit-Weinberg
DESCRIPTION:Translation in the Middle Ages\, as today\, is not simply a ph
 ilological issue of transferring words and phrases from one language to an
 other.  It is also\, inevitably\, a transferring of one culture and ideolo
 gy into another. The twelfth century Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-M
 aure offers an opportunity to examine this truism with regards to Classica
 l reception in the Middle Ages. This paper will compare Benoît’s treatm
 ent of the meeting of Jason and Medea with the same scene in five translat
 ions: Ο πόλεμος της Τρωάδος\, an anonymous Greek transla
 tion of the 13th century\; Guido delle Colonne’s Historia Destructionis 
 Troiae\, a Latin translation of 1287\; and three versions of the tale whic
 h use Guido as their source: the anonymous Catalan Cronica Troyana and the
  anonymous Middle German Trojanische Krieg\, both of the 14th century\; an
 d the Englishman John Lydgate’s Troy Book of 1412-1420.\nAn examination 
 of these texts alongside the often elaborate manuscript illuminations that
  accompany them will demonstrate the ways in which six male authors condem
 n this most confounding of mythological women with various levels of misog
 ynistic vitriol for her forthright expressions of sexual desire\, her here
 tical use of black magic\, and her lack of rational self-control. As a wom
 an\, a pagan\, and a foreigner\, Medea is a thrice-marked other\, and her 
 treatment over time and across cultures by several authors all producing d
 ifferent translations from the same source material is therefore illustrat
 ive of differing cultural attitudes towards these three aspects of her cha
 racter. 
LOCATION:Classics Faculty\, Room G.21
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