Medea, Noxium Genus – A Legal Reading of Seneca's Medea

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  • Márcio Meirelles Gouvêa Júnior Doutor em Estudos Literários, pela FALE/Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_13_4

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Medea, actiones noxales, contaminatio, Seneca

Abstract

An alternate reading from the line 179 from Medea of Seneca under Roman Justice procedural focus, attached to the various juridical dispositions concerning the actiones no-xialis, allows the enlargement of the comprehension of the tragic protagonist rule. In this new translational possibility, Medea acquired, in very clear way, the role of the wronged, enhancing Jason’s treachery and Creon’s tyranny. On the other hand, this procedural reading of the literary text of Seneca still allows the perception of the practice of contaminatio realized by the author, who updated the Greek narration to the Latin reality by means of its juridical adequation to the Roman reality.

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2025-11-28

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Gouvêa Júnior, M. M. (2025). Medea, Noxium Genus – A Legal Reading of Seneca’s Medea. Revista Archai, (13), 35. https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_13_4

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No. 13 (2014): No. 13 (2014): Revista Archai nº13 (July, 2014)

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