... an intense protest against her husband Agamemnon's cruel decision to sacrifice their daughter Iphigenia holds no ground to the Greek audience and the other characters of the play. Her own son Orestes later kills her. To him, avenging his father's murder is all-important and the hideous crime of matricide is only secondary! So much so that Athene , the ... results. She is branded a demonic witch who is quite unfit to adjust in the Greek culture'. Rather than succeeding to Pelias' throne, Jason is banished from Iolcus by his son, Akastus. Medea is thus declared guilty of ruining her husban...

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