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... Jason has sinned but Medea is punished . No wonder they begin with general reflections about the topsy - turvydom of the world ; the emphasis on their sex echoes Medea's great speech on women ; it is men , they continue , not women ...
... Jason has sinned but Medea is punished . No wonder they begin with general reflections about the topsy - turvydom of the world ; the emphasis on their sex echoes Medea's great speech on women ; it is men , they continue , not women ...
Page 156
... Jason would have a better claim on our sympathy , if those words were true . The chorus , being women and friends of Medea they have again clearly shown this in their short comment on Jason's speech ( 576-8 ) —seem to share her jealous ...
... Jason would have a better claim on our sympathy , if those words were true . The chorus , being women and friends of Medea they have again clearly shown this in their short comment on Jason's speech ( 576-8 ) —seem to share her jealous ...
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... Jason shall be deprived of his heirs , and shall not beget new heirs . There is no hesitation here , her maternal love does not come to the surface , all her faculties are directed towards vengeance . Again her fear of being a laughing ...
... Jason shall be deprived of his heirs , and shall not beget new heirs . There is no hesitation here , her maternal love does not come to the surface , all her faculties are directed towards vengeance . Again her fear of being a laughing ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
OBSTACLES FOR THE MODERN READER | 13 |
THE PLAYS AND CONTEMPORARY LIFE | 29 |
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Achilles Admetus Adrastus Aegisthus Agamemnon Alcestis Amphitryo Andromache Antigone Aphrodite Apollo appears Argive Argos Artemis Athenian Athens audience Aulis Bacchants beautiful begs character Children of Heracles choral ode chorus clearly Clytemnestra comes connexion Creon Creusa curse daughter dead death Dionysus divine doubt dramatic dramatist effect Electra emotional Eteocles Euripidean Euripides express fact fate father feel follows gives goddess gods Greece Greek Hector Hecuba Helen Hermione hero Hippolytus human husband Iocasta Iolaus Iphigenia Jason kill king lamentation Lycus madness Medea Menelaus messenger monologue mother murder natural Neoptolemus Odysseus Oedipus Orestes parodos Peleus Pentheus Phaedra Phoenician Women pity play poet Polyneices Polyxena prayer prologos Pylades queen reference reflections relevance sacrifice says scene seems sing slave song sorrow Sparta speak speech story Suppliants sympathy Taurians tells Thebes Theseus thought tragedy tragic Trojan Women Troy vengeance Verrall whole wife woman words Xuthus Zeus