¿Es Medea “responsable” de matar a sus hijos? Medea de Eurípides, los dioses y la concepción aristotélica de la acción

Abstract

In this article we wonder if it is pertinent to analyse the character of
Euripides’ Medea and, more precisely, her filicide, in the light of Aristotle’s
doctrine of action. With regard to the heroine, it is doubtful and perhaps
confusing to talk about “responsibility” (in Aristotelian terms) because
her motivations, as all tragic heroes’, are two-sided: faced to a superior
ἀνάγκη he wants what he is forced to do as well. In addition, Medea is not
an ordinary woman: she is an ontologically complex character that has a
share in the divine level, a share which is more crucial than what has usually
been emphasized.