Such an inner world of emotion is alien from the genius of the religious and soldier-like Aeschylus; Sophocles creates characters to act on one another, and endows them with qualities accordingly; Euripides opens a new world to art and gives us a nearer view of passionate emotion, both in its purest forms and in the wildest aberrations by which men are controlled, or troubled, or destroyed In Euripides' Medea, as we learn from the nurse in the opening scene, Medea and Jason have lived together as husband and wife in Corinth since fleeing, first Colchis, where Medea betrayed her father Ki...

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