... and social life of ancient Greece, they dominate the imaginative life of Greek men to a degree almost unparalleled in the Western tradition.... Greek writers used the female-in a fashion that bore little resemblance to the lives of actual women-to understand, express, criticize, and experiment with the problems and contradictions of their culture.(Foley) How does the statement made by Foley ... from slaves. However, Politics reaffirmed the idea of a man's world, and probably had gained many a man's admiration. Going back to Foley's statement, "Greek writers used the female-in a fashion ...

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... , and in return wishes to seek revenge. When Claire was seventeen, Schill basically accused her of being a whore by his actions. He said it was not his child that she bore, and bribed two other men to say they slept with Claire as well. Claire had already laid her wrath upon these two men, by gouging out their eyes and castrating ... ...

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... his father's murderer and his mother's lover. He has committed two of the sins which the gods consider the worst. Guilt-stricken, he gouges out his eyes: "To this guilt I bore witness against myself- with what eyes shall I look upon my people?" (1384-1385). His wife and mother, Jocasta, hangs herself. He is cast out and his children, the products of ... ...

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... love with and later married. She not only helped him obtain the Golden Fleece from her own country, but fled with him to his homeland to build a new life. Medea bore two children with Jason and looked to having a future with him. "But, of course, the heart of the play is the quarrel between Medea and Jason, the deserted wife and ... ...

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