Euripides

The following essay will discuss the main character and protagonist, Okonkwo, as a tragic hero in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart.” The definition of a tragic hero will be examined in depth and how Okonkwo, whose flaws ultimately leads to his downfall, meets all the criteria of a classic Greek tragic hero. Aristotle describes a tragic hero as someone who has high status and who displays a tragic flaw (“hamartia”) that will in the end cause their own destruction. Aristotle explains how a…

Medea was an Enchantress that was the granddaughter of the God of the Sun, Helios. She was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis and an Oceanid, Idyia. She was the wife of Jason, Leader of the Argonauts, and mother of his two children. Medea had helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece, the skin of a winged ram of Zeus. To get the fleece, she helped him through several challenges, which included fire­breathing oxen and dragon teeth. After retrieving the fleece and sailing away, they were pursued…

Summary of Revenge “Revenge” is a Television Series produced by Mike Kelley, Marty Bowen, and Wyck Godfrey. Emily Thorne rents back a beach home she was raised in as a child by her father. The home is adjacent to the mansion of an affluential family, the Graysons. Emily is actually Amanda Clarke whose father was framed for treason by the Graysons when she was a kid. Her father was sentenced to life imprisonment after the trial and was murdered in prison by associates of the people that framed…

Medea did everything she could for Jason since she was in love with him. Medea betrayed her own family for Jason and in return he stabs her in the back. Jason used Medea to accomplish what he needed to accomplish for himself and when he couldn’t profit from her he left her. Medea was the daughter of Aeёtes, the King of Chalcis. She first met Jason when he came to her father’s kingdom looking for the Golden Fleece. Hera bribed Aphrodite to forge a love among Medea and Jason. Aeёtes said he would…

When Euripides was alive things were a lot different. For example, women played very little, if any at all, of a role in government or the military or any major institution of the time. Women had no voting rights and were therefore considered to be less valuable than their male counterparts. And that was if they were lucky. Most women were oppressed by men and lived however the men desired them to live. In his society at the time, women had a designated role and few, if any, strayed from…

Many people today are also excessively greedy and don't appreciate what they already have l. They're quick to look at what the next person has, looking over their own riches. From traditional myths such as the stonecutter to famous plays such as Euripides Medea, male characters help readers understand how society viewed and still views women; and how one character who is conflicting nature learns from his/her mistakes. In the myth the stonecutter, the stonecutter sees beyond what he already has…

Bacchae is an ancient and famous Greek tragedy, this play was written by the Greek playwright Euripides around the 410 B.C, and premiered in the 405 B.C., as (Ancient-literature.com, n.d.) says “the story is based on the myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, who are punished by the god Dionysus for refusing to worship him”. It is considered one of the most remarkable tragedies of all times. Euripides was one of the greatest tragedians of the Ancient Greece. He was born in Salamis…

Introduction: Euripides was one of greatest playwrights and poets of classical Greece. He was the 3rd and the last of Athenian tragedians after Aeschylus and Sophocles. Due to a quaint accident of history, eighteen of his 95 plays have survived in a complete form, along with some substantial fragments of many of his other plays. He is primarily famous for having adapted the formal structure of traditional Greek tragedy by portrayal of strong female characters and smart slaves, and by satirizing…

Greek drama shows many instances of female sexuality and the negative connotation associated with it. Through props and tone expressed in lines 190- 585 of Hippolytus, Euripides explicitly addresses the role of woman as an “anti-model” through Greek society’s strict expectations of female sexuality. When female sexuality is controlled, the ultimate goal of patriarchy will succeed in Greek society. First and foremost, Froma Zeitlin introduces the idea of an “anti-model” in Playing the Other…

After reading Euripides’ Medea and Homers’ Odyssey, it becomes clear that in both tragedies Odysseus and Medea have different story lines and many plot differences. However, there is one theme that plays a major key role throughout both tragedies. When comparing both Greek tragedies, revenge plays a major role in showing us the many ways ancient Greek literature was demonstrated. Revenge was seen through some points in Odysseus’ journey where he was faced with struggles in order to return home,…