1. clytaemnestra and Medea
God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to people's houses," says the nurse in the beginning of Euripides's play Medea (119-130). ... His first wife, Medea, is a powerful woman who has no place to go, so she becomes desperate. ... Even now I know that I am making a mistake," he says (Euripides, The Medea, 332-330). ... He lies and says that he is remarrying for the good of Medea and the children, so that they too may be royalty. ... Medea in her anger kills Creon and his daughter, and then kills her own children, only to cause Jason more pain. ...
Thomas Cahill's Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, depicts the culture of ancient Greece. It describes the Greece's way of life from politics to art. I intend to prove that Greek works, both written and non-written, can inspire people to think differently and the total effects these works had as a whole in ...
Euripides did use the inspiration from Greek mythology and legends, same as Sophocles and Aeschylus, but tried to relate to the modern day Athenian of his time, Among his plays, were Cyclops, Medea, Andromache, and probably his most famous, Helen. ...