Euripides

The word ‘trauma’ is derived from the Greek word for ‘wound’ and is defined as a wound that is inflicted by a sudden mental shock caused by a traumatic event. For Barbara Thorson in I Kill Giants, trauma takes over her everyday life. In order to escape the harsh reality of her everyday life, where her mother is dying from cancer, Barbara creates her own imaginary world where she has the power to kill giants. From experiencing trauma at a young age, Barbara has social and developmental issues.…

Who’s the True Tragic Heroine? Why do people do the wrong thing, knowing that it is wrong? Then, they feel bad about it and regret doing it. Why not just do the right thing the first time? These are questions that are faced by King Creon in the tragedy, Antigone. Though the tragic drama Antigone was written in the 6th Century B.C, this problem is still faced today (Willocks). King Creon deals with this problem after making the wrong decision to send Antigone to the cave to die for attempting to…

Hera is known for her many revengeful plots against Zeus’s many girlfriends. In the past, Hera is involved in the Trojan War, she sought to bring down the city of Troy because Prince Paris chose Aphrodite over her. A temple and many statues are dedicated to Hera for her importance in her cult following. Hera is the Greek goddess of childbirth, marriage and women. She is married to Zeus and has three kids: Ares, Hephaestus and Eileithyia. Her family includes her siblings Zeus, Poseidon, Hades,…

According to Aristotle’s definition of tragedy as it is stated by McManus (1999), tragedy is the replica of one’s actions as it is brought in a dramatic way and not narrated. It is also mentioned by him that tragedy is much more profound than history simply because history just state facts or figures of what happened during that time while tragedy exaggerates of what may happen in that certain situation. The aim of tragedy is to consummate its catharsis of such feelings like “Fear” and “Pain”.…

The women in the Odyssey play a pivotal role in Odysseus’s journey back home from Troy after the war. His journey was made complicated right from the start when Ajax, a Greek warrior raped King Priam’s daughter Cassandra which enraged the goddess Athena, and she was mainly responsible for Odysseus’s late homecoming. Throughout the Odyssey, Odysseus comes across women during his journey who appear in the form of temptresses or seek to destroy him. Athena plays a lead controlling role in the…

How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work (Oedipus Rex) developed through the interactive oral? Through the interactive oral presentations, the class learned the many components that combined to form Oedipus the King and other Greek plays from the time. The myths that came before Oedipus helped lay the path that Oedipus the King would follow. These different myths explain how Thebes and the Oracle were developed. This information is pertinent in the…

expressing a wish because they are not allowed to follow their hearts? Why is it justified for a male to cheat on his wife, but the wife is not able to question him? Why are women always portrayed as subjected to men? Well, I will be talking about Euripides’ Medea and the portrait of Isabella d'Este to further explain on how these two women portray their roles. However, both roles are very different from each other, yet explain or showcase why a woman should not be considered less. This is…

When reading Euripides Trojan Women, the story focus on what occurs after the Trojan War when the city has been destroyed by the Greek Army. The story is from the perspective of the Trojan women Hecuba, her daughter Kasandra, Hector wife Andromache and Helen of Sparta. After the fall of Troy the Greek generals capture these women and they our given as trophies to the generals of the Army. During this time Hecuba queen of Troy is distort when she finds out her daughter Kasandra as priestess to…

similarly also made her own father heirless by killing her brother. Another act mentioned by Euripedes is her instigating of King Pelius’s daughters into killing their own father – which too is a diabolic act, again against patriarchy. This is how Euripides adapted Medea in the book from the main myth of the Jason and the Argonauts. Additionally, the chorus who are constituted of women of Corinth, are sympathetic to Medea from the start. Even knowing Medea’s diabolic plans, they do not disclose…

With a distinctive role as an anomaly in the triangle of the greatest tragic playwrights, comprising of also Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides functioned as controversial figure through his flexibility in the role of women during the period of male dominance in Greek history. Though argued to be a misogynist, as evident when he exacerbates the female actions in his plays, Euripides’s defiance of societal norms of a woman enables a more ept characterization of being considered towards…