... those characters whose purpose was specific, whose defiance of threats and advice, whose refusal to betray their own ideal vision were the preoccupation of Sophoclean tragedy. Medea is presented to the audience in the unmistakable style and language of the Sophoclean hero, the determined resolve, expressed in uncompromising terms: "the deed must ... kill the commanders of the army for denying him the armor of Achilles; his shame springs simply from his failure to achieve his bloody objection. But Medea is a woman, a wife and mother, and also a foreigner. Yet she acts as if she were a com...

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... demonstrates passion in the service of reason and the other, reason in the service of passion. Prometheus from the tragedy Prometheus Bound and Medea from the tragedy Medea are two characters in which the interactions between the three parts of the soul are strongly observable. Nonetheless the two characters are completely ... She certainly is emotional, but her emotions drive her to carry out evil acts and not what the women in ancient Greece were expected to do. Medea is a character not a lot of the audience liked when the play was performed because she is not the typical woman of the ...

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... bravery, and stupidity. However, many differences appear as well. Each hero uses their intelligence and emotional strength in different ways. The stepmothers of both Theseus and Hercules disliked the heroes. Medea, Theseus" stepmother, tries to trick his father, King Aegeus, into poisoning him because she didn't want to lose the power she had over the king ... . Medea's plan fails because Theseus shows his father the sword he left him. Aegeus recognized the sword and knocked the poisonous wine to the floor. Hera, Hercules's stepmother and the wife ... ...

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... year journey home. Theseus- Son of the king of athens. Doubts his son which causes his death. Jason- Retreiver of the golden fleece. Abandons the princess(medea) who loves him and marries for a gain in power. Medea later kills his family. Perseus- Kills medusa. As prophesied he kills his grandfather (accidentilly). Oedipus- Rids town of sphinx. Marries his mother unwittingly. Blinds himself ... ...

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... face tomorrow with the knowledge that Sophocles' play has given them. The playwright Euripides wrote a controversial play to open the discussion about the treatment of women by men. This play, Medea, shows how poorly women are treated by their husbands and the things that a women could to exact revenge on her husband. 6.) The classical Greeks' favorite topic to talk about were ... ...

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... qualities are his dependency, arrogant attitude, and patience. People consider him a hero because of the trials he went through in capturing the Golden Fleece. Ironically he is a coward and a liar. Medea is one of the witches that assists him in capturing the Golden Fleece, and he promises her that he would marry her. Yet because of his ambitious ways he resisted ... ...

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... the more than 90 plays credited to Euripides, 18 survive: Alcestis, Andromache, the Bacchae, the Cyclops, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, the Heracleidae, Heracles, Hippolytus, Ion, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, Orestes, the Phoenissae, Rhesus and the Trojan Women. Herodotus the Historian Herodotus wrote the first historical narrative and first great prose work of Greek literature. His History is an entertaining ... ...

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... impossible tasks. Jason was another god that was first thought of being a villain. He captured the Golden Fleece this was the part they thought he was a hero but he promised Medea (a witch that helped him) that he would marry her. After having the Golden Fleece he resisted in doing so. Atalanta was one of the biggest hero's of the time but ... ...

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