Abstract
This chapter treats the intertextual relation between the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes and the film Jason and the Argonauts (1963). Using the framework of the heroine's ‘ambitious’ and ‘erotic’ texts as defined by feminist theorist Nancy K. Miller, the analysis finds that Medea's ambition in the Hellenistic epic has been systematically replaced with episodes of suppressed eroticism in her relationship with Jason. In this way, the film acknowledges the erotic power that Medea has in the earlier text; but because Medea's erotic text in the film is not explicitly explained or motivated, the film's awareness of Medea as an erotic subject, so prominent in Apollonius' version, is most visible in moments of incongruity or discontinuity.
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