... her husband Agamemnon's cruel decision to sacrifice their daughter Iphigenia holds no ground to the Greek audience and the other characters of the play. Her own son Orestes later kills her. To him, avenging his father's murder is all-important and the hideous crime of matricide is only secondary! So much so ... and the granddaughter of Helios, the Sun god. Jason, a Thessalian hero, was the rightful inheritor of the throne of Iolcus by virtue of being Aeson's son. His uncle Pelias, the usurper of his throne, bade him to procure the Golden Fleece from Colchis if he wanted to be named as his...

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... not have many more. She asks Haemon to hold her with all his strength. 3.1 Summary Breathless, Antigone tells Haemon that she would have protected their son against everything in the world, and that he would have feared nothing. Though his mother would have not been imposing, she would have been stronger than those ... guards. He must save her, lock her up and declare her mad. Creon replies that the nation will know he is making an exception for his son. The howling mob already knows the truth, and he can do nothing. Though master of Thebes, he is but master under the law. Creon ... wi...

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