... serve as justice without the direct intervention of the gods. Ultimately, piety and censorship are both very influential in defining justice. Aeschylus represents a world filled with magic and divinities, something far from today's reality, creating the argument that while both Aeschylus and Plato demonstrate reasonable interpretations of justice, justice as explored through censorship and lies is much more convincing and relevant than ... the conflict was the murder of Clytaemnestra by her son Orestes. He had killed his own mother in order to demand reprisal from her because she had ki...

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... Medea as the first notable precursor of the feminist perspective. A keen reader of the Greek Tragedy may argue that there are various other female characters that have acquired considerable limelight. Aeschylus' Clytemnestra , Sophocles' Antigone and Euripides' Hecabe and Andromache may be quoted as pertinent examples to substantiate this objection. A close study of all these characters would reveal that none of them ... stands up against her husband in the most ghastly manner. ( Ghastly' of course from the perspective of male chauvinists!) The fact that she launches an intense protest ...

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