Medea: The Heroine At first glance, most people today would likely be perplexed and disturbed at calling a mother who kills her children a hero. But this stems from the common modern vision of a hero as the embodiment of "good- (and by contrast the villain as the embodiment of "evil-). In ancient Greek mythology and literature, especially as delineated by Euripides' senior colleague, Sophocles in his Oedipus Tyrannos, a hero ... "Medea herself. In the monologue she delivers after she hears that her fatal gifts have been delivered into the princess's hands by her children, she pleads with hers...

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