THE DIFFERENTIATION OF TRAGIC HEROES: AN ESSAY IN COMPARISON OF HEROIC CODES There are many types of heroes, all of whom can be slotted neatly into categories by their respective characteristics. Typically, a tragic hero ... handily raise her two children. Medea is a strong-willed woman who committed devious acts of violence against her own family in her homeland in order to help Jason. Specifically she says, "And I myself betrayed my father and my home, and came with you to Pelias" land of Iolcus. And then, showing more willingness to ... help than wisdom, I killed him, Pelias, with a most ...

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... The Libation Bearers, The Euminides and Proteus. Proteus did not survive, though the three tragedies form a unity in themselves as the only Greek trilogy we have. In this essay I will only focus on one of the three plays, called "The Libation Bearers". The other play I will be looking at is "Medea". Medea is the earliest ... a massive force to win her back, but as they were just about to set sail the goddess Artemis held the weather against them and Agamemnon was therefore sat a choice that if he wanted to appease the goddess he had to sacrifice his own daughter, Iphigeneia. Agamemnon d...

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