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... murder of next of kin . She knows the hideous story of its past ... " the small children wailing over their slaughter , the roasted flesh eaten by the father ... ' and its future , too , for in a vivid , cryptic phrase , she foreshadows ...
... murder of next of kin . She knows the hideous story of its past ... " the small children wailing over their slaughter , the roasted flesh eaten by the father ... ' and its future , too , for in a vivid , cryptic phrase , she foreshadows ...
Page 310
... murder of the children which appalls them . Their protest brushed aside , they say only that she will be the unhappiest among women . Where they could have intervened deci- sively - the scene in which Medea entraps Jason by feigned ...
... murder of the children which appalls them . Their protest brushed aside , they say only that she will be the unhappiest among women . Where they could have intervened deci- sively - the scene in which Medea entraps Jason by feigned ...
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... murder of kin : but the speaker is Hermione who , with her father Menelaus , kidnaps Andromache's child , forces her to leave sanctuary by threatening to kill it , breaks the promise made to spare its life , and would have murdered ...
... murder of kin : but the speaker is Hermione who , with her father Menelaus , kidnaps Andromache's child , forces her to leave sanctuary by threatening to kill it , breaks the promise made to spare its life , and would have murdered ...
Contents
Two The Lion in the House | 27 |
Suppliants translated by Janet | 56 |
Six Review of Agamemnon directed by Andrei Serban | 70 |
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Achilles action Aegisthus Aeschylean Aeschylus Agamemnon Ajax Ajax's Alcestis anapaests Antigone Aphrodite Apollo Artemis Athenian Athens attitude audience Bacchae Cassandra century change of mind chapter originally appeared character choral chorus Clytemnestra comedy comic course Creon Creusa critics curse death Dionysus divine dramatic dramatist Electra enemies Euripidean Euripides example fact father fifth-century Fraenkel goddess gods Greek tragedy Helen Heracles hero heroic Hippolytus human iambic Iphigenia Jason kill king Laius later lines lioncub meaning Medea Menelaus modern murder myth nature Nurse Odysseus Oedipus oracle Oresteia Orestes parable passage Phaedra Philoctetes phrase plague play poet poetry present problem prologue Prometheus reference rejected Ronnet satyr play says scene seems silence slave Sophoclean Sophocles speaks speech stage stasimon suggests Tecmessa Teucer Thebes Theseus things thought traditional tragic translation Troy tyrannos vision words Xuthus Zeus γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ οὐ τὸ