... 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 ... understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, Loyal to my friends. To such life glory belongs. (805-8) She aspires for all those things, which have traditionally been the undisputed domain of men. Whereas, almost all the other female characters...

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