Offering a contrast between this aging witchy mother and Antigone, a young virgin with no occult power, I will explore Medea as an icon of epistemological alterity, draw out the role of French classical tragedy in shaping her as such, and suggest some reasons why we should linger with her today, perhaps more than ever. In this talk, I explore why we should be thinking about Medea and taking her as a model-if not for positive action, then perhaps for politics itself.
Despite the propensity by philosophers and political theorists for mining Greek tragedy in search of models of effective moral action, few have explored Medea as a salutary icon of positive action.
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