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    Against the Gods: Exploring hubris and its consequences in Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and Euripides’ Hippolytus In the following Greek tragedies hubris is not merely overweening pride but behaviour or an action against – or in defiance of – the gods. With this definition of hubris in mind, an examination of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and Euripides’ Hippolytus will show that central characters within the plays – wittingly or unwittingly - commit acts of hubris which lead to their…

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    Euripides’s great tragedy Hippolytus tells the story of a young man and his family who fall victim to the displeasure of the gods.Because of its disproportionate on men and its disregard of female suffering, this play contains strong misogynistic undertones. The story begins with Aphrodite expressing anger over Hippolytus’s refusal to worship her properly. He instead devotes all of his time to hunting with Artemis, the patron goddess of virgins. Hippolytus claims that the reason for his distance…

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    In Hippolytus, free will is best defined as the power to choose your own course of action. Euripides explores a portion of human autonomy where we “know what’s good and recognize it”(Euripides 2001: 380) yet struggle to “accomplish it”(Euripides 2001: 381). That is to say, a struggle between different courses of action takes place and leads to a conflicted free will. Therefore, Euripides’ quotes can help shape the argument that free will, while strained by the actions of a god, is still…

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    Myths were used to reinforce social conventions whilst allowing exploration of social tensions and issues. Euripides’s Hippolytus reinforces and questions the role of men and women in society. The idea of community is an essential aspect of Greek society consequently being a man meant full participation in civic life including the religious aspects of sacrifice and processions. In private, men were head of the household and concerned with reproducing sons and Theseus represents the ideal Greek…

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    The Importance of Comparison The three plays by Euripides that will be reviewed in this essay will be Iphigenia at Aulis, The Trojan Women, and Hippolytus. As I read each of these plays I found each more exciting than the last. The words of Euripides take the reader a step back in time and does a fantastic job giving the reader a mental image of what is going on. The stories of the Greek culture are very interesting and let the reader understand the values that were held in that period. They…

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    Based on the conflict between Artemis and Aphrodite in Hippolytus, the conclusion which can be drawn is that the Greeks perceived their gods to be selfish, amoral, vengeful and petty, pursuing their own goals in disregard of the moral and responsible path and killing humans to attack the deities which favored said humans; the conflict between Demeter and the rest of the Olympian gods in Hymn to Demeter reinforces the notion that the gods did not care for mortals when solving conflicts between…

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    According to The Odyssey by Homer and Hippolytus by Euripides, women in ancient Greece were “a great evil” (Euripides 2001: 29), deceitful, and liars. Throughout Odysseus’ journey, Odysseus encounters several women who kill men in his army, cause battles and the slaughter of many men and deceive the characters in the epic through disguises. The most destructive women in The Odyssey are Athena, Zeus’ daughter, and Clytemnestra, Agememnon’s wife. Although Athena appears to guide Telemachus in…

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    mythology have had many interpretations and many meanings throughout the years. There are also many similarities and differences between stories from the past; Just like in the plays Bacchae and Hippolytus. Both Aphrodite and Dionysus' motivation and behaviors in the plays Bacchae (Dionysus) and Hippolytus (Aphrodite) were similar, in that, they both wanted to restore honor to their names and they used the family to teach the one who disrespected them to show respect to a god/goddess. But on the…

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    Jules Dassin's film Phaedra is a modern retelling of Euripides' Hippolytus that focuses on wealthy ship owners and their families, yet the film still incorporates some of the tragic elements of Euripides' play. As with the play, core of the film revolves around a stepmother falling love in with her stepson, yet the film presents several of its main characters with different characterizations than their Euripidean counterparts. These changes result in feelings of passion and jealousy amongst the…

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    control? This is the question that Euripides poses in his ancient Greek tragedy Hippolytus. Mad at Hippolytus for renouncing everything she symbolizes and has power over, Aphrodite curses his step-mom Phaedra to fall in love with Hippolytus in order to punish him with the very thing he claims to hate: sexual desire. In doing so, Aphrodite has permanently changed the course of Phaedra’s life. Knowing that her love for Hippolytus would damage her public social status since it borders on infidelity…

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