Paura e ‘paure’: Pausania, Medea e una statua a Corinto
Abstract
In his description of Corinth, Pausanias dwells on an expiatory Deima, the statue of a woman with frightening features, erected on the funerary monument of Medea's children. Rather than an isolated “personification of Terror”, it seems preferable to think of the use of deima in the sense of “spirit, spectre”, which has numerous folkloric parallels. The statue is said to have been that of a “ghostly woman”, perhaps an allusion to one of the demonic infanticidal figures present in Greek imagination.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Classical Antiquity Studies
Classical Studies and Philology
Folklore
Mythology
and Literature Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Use Siena air (University of Siena)
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- IT
- Document type
- Book chapter