One of his more poignant tragedies is his play "Medea" which illustrates the final interaction between Medea and her once heroic husband, Jason. ... And by the final scene it is with Jason whom the audience shared the feelings Aristotle proclaimed so essential to drama as he learns of not only the deaths of his new bride and father in law, but also the deaths of his own two sons and the hands of their mother. ... Palmer terms these "conscious anachronisms" and cites them as underlying conflicts in Euripidean plays. ... It becomes increasingly hard for the audiences of later centuries to un...

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They created plays that are still considered among the greatest works of world drama. ... Greek drama was influenced by five playwrights over the 200 years following Thespis. ... This actor was called the protagonist, or the main character of a drama. ... Aeschylus' Oresteia is the earliest drama which used the skene, or scene-building. ... Euripides used it at the end of his Medea. ...

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