Medea, a play by the Greek playwright Euripides, explores the Greek- barbarian dichotomy through the character of Medea, a princess from the "barbarian", or non-Greek, land of Colchis. ... Central to the whole plot is Medea's barbarian origins and how they are related to her actions. ... Rather than use physical force to accomplish her plans, she uses her mind instead: "it is best to...make away with them by poison." (384-385) While physical strength can be considered a heroic quality, cleverness can be as well. ... If she left her children with Jason, they would be living in ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Whither can I fly, since all Greece hates the barbarian?""... Such an inner world of emotion is alien from the genius of the religious and soldier-like Aeschylus; Sophocles creates characters to act on one another, and endows them with qualities accordingly; Euripides opens a new world to art and gives us a nearer view of passionate emotion, both in its purest forms and in the wildest aberrations by which men are controlled, or troubled, or destroyed In Euripides' Medea, as we learn from the nurse in the opening scene, Medea and Jason have lived together as husband and wife in Corinth si...

• Word Count: 7698
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School