... effect on their father. And by the final scene it is with Jason whom the audience shared the feelings Aristotle proclaimed so essential to drama as he learns of not only the deaths of his new bride and father in law, but also the deaths of his own ... it with the current social and political trends of his day. Palmer terms these "conscious anachronisms" and cites them as underlying conflicts in Euripidean plays. By introducing these anachronisms he is able to turn the characters into his audience's contemporaries. Therefore, the attitudes and ideals of the ... 5th century are prominent...

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