Many critics evade commenting on Euripides's shift from the traditional Greek drama where men usually are the heroes. This unusual change in the Greek drama, exemplify Euripides" perception of women. ... His plays contain, hidden below the popular surface, an appeal to men to stop deceiving themselves about the benevolence of their institutions really involve (Vellacott, 10). // "His study of this, the most insistent and universal problem of human life, achieved a radical profundity, a freedom from conventional assumption, which was rare in his day as it has been in ever...

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"Medea" is a good play to study for its themes, as its structure makes them easily visible and definable. ... The fact that Euripides was very ahead of his time accounts for this, but all of the basic elements of the play are still current in many ways, which makes it an interesting piece of drama to study, and is why it should still be performed....

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During the Hellenic and Hellenistic periods, the ancient Greeks were hard at work, making long-lasting contributions to art, poetry, drama, sports, mathematics, science and philosophy. ... In his study of physiology he believed that everyone has their own free will. ... During the Hellenistic Period, science were the mathematicians, Alexandrian Euclid created the study of geometry. ... Even though their input was probably overlooked, we still study and utilize till this day....

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