... Athens would accept a woman who is guilt of killing her own children. There are also allusions to the Oedipal myth. Just as Thebes was struck by plague on account of Oedipus' unintentional murder of his father, Athens shall not be spared by gods for having sheltered one who deliberately got involved in matricide. The Greek myths instruct us that Medea settled ... ...

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