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ABSTRACT

In this paper we take a look at Medea, a very complicated and troublesome literary character. She is now regarded as the epitome of monstrosity. The Greek playwright Euripides was the first to say that Medea murdered her children for revenge. Pausanias and other ancient sources said otherwise: the Corinthians slaughtered the children and then blamed her. The German contemporary novelist Christa Wolf draws from these versions of the myth to assert that the “worst” mother in history was in fact a victim. In the novel Medea. Voices, she sustains that Medea, the fearful “barbarian”, was not a magician but a medicine woman, a loving wife and mother and an unusually wise person who had the misfortune to discover that the flourishing city where they found refuge was built upon a terrible crime. This postmodern revisionist rewriting is, of course, feminist. We follow this line in our reading and we see an apparently feminist tone in Medea`s discourse such as Euripides designed it. Nevertheless, his play was the perfect legitimizing strategy for the extreme misogynistic behavior that was considered acceptable at that era. The intricate palimpsest where Medea is the central figure shows that the “monster” is perhaps a cultural construct among others.