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Corinna Bain, "... and Her Severed Head Said to Perseus," a slam recitation delivered in September 2010 performance in New York City's Bowery.

a YouTube video of the performance. click on the image at right or this link: http://youtu.be/znrpahhfdCE0

Her wordpress page.

The literary history of having jilted lovers address the men who dumped them goes back at least to Ovid's Heroides. Corinna Bain's remarkable perspective speaks to a hero whose future is bright; the voice of Medusa, though, conveys a disquieting longing.

Bain's management of the myth is very provocative.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University and other contexts.
This resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.