... stay home with the mother. However the plays of that time do not reflect the evidence that we have about the women in classical Athens. The tragedies of Medea, Antigone, Electra, and even Agamemnon, show women are strong and free willed and are capable of doing things on their own. In Euripides" Medea, Medea is constantly talking about the conditions that ... ...

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... its two components tragedy and comedy. There were three great tragic playwrights ancient Athens; Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles. Sophocles (496-406 BC) wrote over 100 plays including Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Ajax, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, and Oedipus of Colonus. Most of the plays deal with tragedy. For example, in Antigone, Antigone disobeys the king's order and buries her brother who was killed ... ...

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