... the first play of a trilogy about the marriage of the 50 daughters of Danaus, which included the plays The Egyptians and The Danads. The Persians, presented in 472 BC, is a historical tragedy about the Battle of Salam as, the scene being laid in Persia at the court of the mother of King Xerxes I. The Seven Against Thebes, produced in 467 BC, is based on a Theban legend, the conflict between the two sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices, for the ... Pericles. He was not politically active or militarily inclined, but the Athenians twice elected him to high military office. Sophocles co...

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... Their Reactions to Adversity Throughout many Greek tragedies, plays, and poems there are many characters that are faced with adversity when tragedy occurs. With these many instances a multitude of emotional reactions arise. The variances of emotion, although shown from a character, are all based on human responses. These responses are countless in number for the reason that there are many facets to human nature ... . In looking at only two characters in Greek writings; Oedipus from Oedipus the King written by Sophocles and Medea from Medea written by Euripides, we can see two different r...

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