HISTORY OF EDUCATION
STORIA DELL'EDUCAZIONE
And so we strive to delve into the paideutic terrain of myth, a terrain which has long satisfied humankind’s emotional and intellectual needs. This book selects from among the various versions of snake women to analyze Medusa in particular, a figure that represents the prototype and archetype of the Western imaginary. The earliest visual and written sources (Homer and Hesiod) depicted the Medusa over time as a monster with a petrifying gaze. The first female monster writhing with a thousand snake heads. And yet we still lack a thorough historical-educational analysis of her gaze and poisonous mane, which have pervaded art, religion and culture to this day and been the object of countless investigations in various fields of the social sciences and humanities.
Verso la cultura delle emozioni e degli immaginari.
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2016/2017 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Angela Giallongo | Friday h. 13 Palace Albani |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The task is therefore to re-examine the public behavior guidelines transmitted by innumerable tales in order to identify the foundations of the belief that the Medusa is possessed of destructive powers, all the while privileging the idea of diversity and the emotional dynamics underlying gender identity. Historians, and especially the female historians of recent generations, have mainly seen Medusa as representing otherness, by virtue of her absolute and terrifying difference, and as an allegory of conflictual relations between masculinity and femininity.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
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