... fight as hoplites: "People say that we women lead a safe life at home, while men have to go to war. What fools they are! I would much rather fight in the phalanx three times than give birth to a child only once." The character by the name of Medea's comment in Euripides' play named after her that women were claimed to live a secure existence at home echoed ... reputation to lose, apart from a professional one. Twice in tragedy (Sophocles' Electra and Antigone) women are bluntly ordered to go indoors, which is their appropriate place. Jebb, commenting on Antigone 579, quotes a poetic fra...

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... might find brutal, pitiless, and mean-spirited. Thus, a hero was not necessarily always "good- in the modern sense of the word. Despite the despicable act of killing her own children, Medea fulfills the definition of a tragic hero in the Sophoclean sense. Medea is presented from the start of the play in heroic terms. Her language ... triumphs but he is dead; Oedipus wins, but he is blind; Antigone achieves victory after she hanged herself. Medea is quite sure, however, that the gods are on her side. From her first appearance has no doubt that the gods support her cause. She appeals to The...

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