... as independent, stubborn individuals. Love between two people is clearly tested in each play. In the tragic play Medea, Medea's husband Jason betrays Medea and decides to marry a more beautiful, youthful woman. Medea and her children are then banished from Thebes. The play Antigone, portrays the bond between family members. The newly ... Thebes. He said that he knew that she was plotting revenge against Jason and his bride, Creon's daughter. When Creon went to Medea with these accusations, Medea denied having ever said anything about revenge. She begged Creon not to banish her and her ch...

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... , will continue to live our lives in sin and despair. Augustine's view of humans differs in a great extent to that of thetragic sense of like? portrayed in Oedipus Rex and Medea. Augustine thoroughly explains that God chose to give us life and though He guides us and comforts us he does not choose our destiny upon us. We as humans choose ... and prophets told them their futures and they had their lives planned from the get go. Oedipus had no choice in what was destined to happen to him, nor did Medea. Since the Gods chose their lives, they could not escape their divined destiny. Nor, cou...

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... believed in polytheism which is the belief in many gods. They believed in gods such as Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Dionysus, Zeus, and many more (Oedipus 13). In Euripides, a goddess named Medea is described, and in Herodotus paragraph 14, the people bring sacrifices to Delphi. Many Greek gods are portrayed throughout these stories. The Hebrew God was omniscient, but Greek gods failed ... ...

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