... depicting the reconciliation of the blind and aged Oedipus with destiny and his sublime and mysterious death at Colonus, after years of wandering as an exile, sustained by the loving care of his daughter Antigone. EURIPIDES Euripides lived around 480 BC to 406 BC. He was a Greek dramatist, the third, with Aeschylus and Sophocles, of the great Attic tragic poets. His work, fairly ... democracy, contained provisions such as payment for jury service, thereby permitting even the poorest citizens to serve. Pericles was determined to make Athens the most beautiful city in the world. MEDEA Med...

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... apart. Sophocles's character Oedipus ends up killing his father, losing his kingdom and his wife and mother, and becoming a blind, wandering outcast for the rest of his life. Jason in Euripides's Medea deserts his family for a new marriage which he hopes will further his station, but his old wife kills his new wife and his children, ending his hopes for a shining future ... ... Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to people's houses," says the nurse in the beginning of Euripides's play Medea (119-130). She is foreshadowing the theme of the ...

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• Grade Level: High School