As "Medea" is a continuation of the Greek myth "Jason and the Argonauts", without the Nurse - in her position of basically a featured chorus member - giving us a brief summary of the myth, the audience would not have "Medea" in context. ... "Medea" begins with peripeteia, when the audience is introduced to the fact that Jason has deserted Medea for another woman, which she tell us in her line "You have the wickedness to turn me out, to get yourself another wife. ... The end of the play shows us Medea's apotheosis. ... Medea herself is a character who is obviously not out of date. ... ...

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(Medea 370-71). ... for her children (Medea 337-339). ... Clytaemnestra is not as cruel as is Medea. ... Medea the chorus does not find fault with Medea for punishing Jason for what he had done. ... Medea. ...

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the historics of greek theatre Theater was born in Attica, an Ionic region of Greece. It originated from the ceremonial orgies of Dionysos but soon enough its fields of interest spread to various myths along with historic facts. As ancient drama was an institution of Democracy, the great tragic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides as well as the comedian Aristophanes elevated public debate and political criticism to a level of aesthetic achievement. Euripides and the ethologist Menandros, in the thriving years of Alexandria and later on during the Roman domination, reached a beau ideal level...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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