Euripides

Jim Sanderson’s Faded Love and Euripides’ Medea come from completely different points in time, yet they show numerous similarities. In this paper I will examine literary elements in both works that help develop the story, the role of tragedy as a theme, and numerous similarities that are listed throughout both stories. In Faded Love we start our short story in Odessa, Texas at a car dealership where two former University of Texas football players by the names Bailey Waller and Pooter Elam work.…

Bacchae by Euripides revolves around Dionysus, the god of wine, and his pursuit to establish himself as a god not only acknowledged, but also worshiped by the people of Thebes. While attempting to make a name for himself, Dionysus also strives to punish those who deny him and make a laughing stock of his and his mother’s name. In particular, Dionysus is out to get his own family because they have turned on him. Among these family members is Pentheus, the king of Thebes, who has forbidden the…

In the poems discussed this semester, love has shown itself in nearly every story. In Aristomenes’ Lysistrata, Aristomenes is focused on the physical affection aspect of love. He emphasizes its importance to both the men and women. In Euripides’ Medea, Euripides exemplifies how love can lead to hate. He is not emphasizing on the physical aspect of love at all. Instead, he focuses on the unstable and emotional aspects of love. In Virgil’s Aeneid, Virgil focuses on the natural,…

Theogony, and Homers The Odyssey; both men chose to represents women in Greek society in a degrading way. Unlike Euripides play Medea that shows a different kind of representation of women in Greek society. In Hesiod, homer, and Euripides writings they have some similarities, differences, and personal representations on woman in Greek societies. Since Hesiod’s, Homer, and Euripides plays were written about old Greek society, it is difficult to say there are no similarities…

Odyssey, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Euripides’ The Trojan Women, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Women being seen as property and/or made victims is the oldest and probably the most discussed role of women. Dating back to 450 B.C., Euripides achieves a clear image of the enslavement of women by men. Hecuba, a powerful and influential Queen before the fall of her husband and her city, Troy, is made a slave to a leader of her enemy, Odysseus. In The Trojan Women, Euripides confirms that women were viewed…

Heracles is often thought of as a hero due to his acts of bravery. However, at the most climatic moment of Heracles by Euripides (translated by Michael R. Halleran), Heracles is seen as a monster that slaughters his family. In spite of this, Heracles is still a hero. His acts of violence were caused by Hera’s hatred. Heracles’ madness that led him to kill his family was not done by his own will; Hera and Iris led him to this path. For example, Heracles’ is no longer under the protection of…

the household and concerned with reproducing sons and Theseus represents the ideal Greek male. Euripides demonstrates how Hippolytus’s actions and behaviours cause him to fail in these duties and that he actually threatens Greek society. Hippolytus is living outside of the community by spending his days in Artemis’ domain as hunting was seen…

terms of the principle of sophrosyne, that is finding balance between reason and passion. However, Euripides in exploring the rationalisations of Jason and Medea, in his tragedy Medea, challenges the commonly held value of seeking balance. Jason breaks his oaths and leaves Medea for fortune and prestige, while Medea sets on the quest to exact her retribution on Jason. Ultimately, however, Medea is Euripides iconoclastic attack on the Greek social system, suggesting to the audience that maybe the…

Medea, written by Euripides is no different than most of the plays of the time except for its subject matter. Medea is about Medea, a strong mother from a foreign land, who is cheated by her husband Jason. What is different about this play is that Medea does not act as a woman should according to the traditional customs of the time. Instead, Medea tries to break down the walls of injustice and point out the patriarchal society present, and the consequential oppression of women. Euripides…

ancient Greece. They served merely as child bearers and housewives, doing whatever their husbands asked of them. The play Medea by Euripides specifically shows how patriarchal and misogynistic society was during that time period. Not many men cared about women, much less advocated for them. Euripides uses Medea to show the rise of feminism among women in Greek society. Euripides paints Medea as a strong independent woman who can solve her own problems. She feels abused and used by Jason, but…