When you think of Mother’s Day, what comes to mind? Rosy babies nestled in mom’s loving arms? Lovely bouquets in all the blazing colors of spring? Handcrafted gifts and cards, all dainty and charming? All of the above? In any case, when you think mom, you probably don’t think along the lines of, say, murder, ...
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 ...
Stay home and be miserable. This is the day not to celebrate. Draw your curtains and stay inside. It’s National Grouch Day. On at least one day of the year you deserve to have the freedom to be yourself. Of course this is all said very tongue-in-cheek nobody expects you to really be grumpy on ...
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 ...
The tale of Jason and the Argonauts has been told roughly since the time of Homer. The myth itself comes out of Thessaly where a tradition of Greek Epic Poetry began in about 800 BCE. The tale of Jason and the Argonauts is set one generation before the events of the Trojan War, but is ...
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 ...
Draconian law (developed in the eighth century B.C. by the notorious Draco) made death the penalty for the smallest of crimes; homicide, however, was not among them. When Solon, the great Athenian lawmaker, revised the Draconian laws drastically in the 6th century B.C., he “declined to include homicide in the category of crimes, and permitted ...
Literature and art are replete with allusions to Greek mythology. For example, a painting of Botticelli depicts the birth of Venus, and Handel wrote some lovely music for an oratorio entitled “Semele.” I personally have wanted to trace these myths back to their original source as much as possible, and perhaps others have had the ...
Euripides’ Medea and Seneca’s Medea differ in many aspects. The one aspect that is more crucial than the others, and sets the differences between both the plays from the onset, is the characterization and motivations of Medea. Euripides sets the tone with a lone, forlorn Medea, wailing from inside her home. She cries out to ...
Beloved, written by Toni Morrison and published in 1987, won the Pulitzer Prize and loosely follows the story of escaped slave Margaret Garner. Garner’s Medea-like heroics when she was captured in her attempt to escape from slavery threw the city of Cincinnati, OH to the forefront of the Nation’s attention. Garner made the ultimate sacrifice ...
