Major Characters Medea- princess of Colchis and wife of Jason Jason- son of Aeson, King of Iolcus Creon- King of Corinth Aegeus- King of Athens Summary The tragedy begins with Medea’s nurse grieving over her mistress’s cruel destiny. She wishes that Jason had never been sent to retrieve the Golden Fleece in Colchis, because then ...
In Euripides, “Bacchae,” several archetypes are portrayed by the characters. Perhaps the most evident is the shadow archetype, present in Agave, Pentheus’ mother. She fits this archetype as, under the Bacchic spells of Dionysus, she loses her identity as a mother as well as her inhibitions as a woman, exemplifying the primitive brutality or dark ...
Since I do not have access to the original text of “The Trojan Women,” the following summary is based on an English translation by M. Hadas and J. McLean in an anthology entitled “Greek Drama.” The translators did a good job. However, no translation can be perfectly faithful to the original. For example, Hecuba compares ...
Much like his contemporaries, Ben Jonson utilized the iambic pentameter, though not in the traditional sonnet form. Within “To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare”, Jonson uses couplets to monumentalize the passing of one of the most prolific dramatists of the sixteenth century. While the poem is a testimony to the ...
This play is about Medea’s revenge on her lover, Jason, for choosing to marry another woman and leaving her to be sent into exile. It is set here in Corinth because this is where Jason and Medea went after Medea betrayed her father and killed her brother in order to help Jason get the Golden ...
Mothering is one of the most important jobs there are. There is no bigger influence on a child’s life, mind, and heart than his mother. Mothers are selfless people who always put their children first. Their maternal instinct is strong, and they would fight to the death to protect their children. Mothers make so many ...
I managed to download only a few pages of the Greek test of Euripides’ “Alcestis” before problems developed on the Perseus website, so the major portion of the following summary is based on a translation by Gilbert Murray presented by the Gutenberg Project. The two URLs are in the reference section below. In the introduction, ...
As Father’s Day approaches, it is not uncommon for one to find them self reflecting on the importance of fatherhood. In becoming a father, a man takes on a lifetime of new roles and responsibilities that are necessary to help in raising a child. In a moments time, a man becomes to his children a ...
There is a popular saying that claims, “well behaved women do not make history.” Though not necessarily true, it does apply to the heroines of the plays Medea by Euripides and Antigone by Jean Anouilh. In both Medea and Antigone, the main character is a woman who rebels against authority in the name of her ...
THE STORY SO FAR: Agamemnon was a Greek general during the Trojan War, who sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia in order to win the gods’ favor. Clytaemestra, who had been told that Iphigenia was to be married, took a lover in her grief and avenged her daughter’s murder by killing her husband. Orestes, with the involvement ...
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