... left wondering to which view the great author of women's tragedies intended them to subscribe. To the Greeks in the Golden Age of 1. classical Greece, Euripides" plays would have confronted them with many uncomfortable situations. Medea, written and performed in 431BC ... their society - is in ruins is dialectical argument at the end of the play. Medea, in the deus ex machina high above Jason, commands the last hate-filled argument between the two; and Jason, representing the perfect Athenian man, is beaten! ... only what is important to Jason, but to herself as well. Medea's character...

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