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This study, relying on the works of Frazer and René Girard, starts from the figure of CEdipus as paradigmatic scapegoat, in order to examine the image of Medea as seen through Greek eyes, and goes on to ask two questions : 1. Do we recapture in her representation a "typology of the stereotypes of persecution" ? 2. In Euripides'tragedy is there a difference between the way the Greek male and the way the Greek female looked at her ? If such is the case, if the Greek female showed towards Medea indulgence, understanding and pity, otherwise sympathy in the etymological sense of the word, was it not on account of the female solidarity that bonded women together since all were oppressed, demeaned and liable to be turned into scapegoats ? And that, the three major fifth-century playwrights were able to feel and express beyond their differences (Aeschylus and Sophocles had certainties and confidence in the city which Euripides no longer shared), even beyond conscious thought : which was the greater : Agamemnon or Clytemnestra ? Creon or Antigone ? Jason or Medea

Art · Character (mathematics · Greek tragedy · Literature · Pity · Scapegoat · Sympathy · Theology · Tragedy (event · Classical Antiquity Studies · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy