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Medea

Much of the sympathetic bent given to Medea comes from Euripides’ tragedy ‘Medea’ written for a playwright contest in 431 BCE. Despite the play being considered one of the greatest in the western canon, Euripides got third place.

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2022-11-13

and Her Terrible Revenge Against the Patriarchy

Euripides’ dismissal by some as a misogynist sits uncomfortably alongside his complex and sympathetic female characters.

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2021-09-17

Orestes kills Neoptolemus at the altar of Apollo in the shrine of Delphi, as depicted in Euripides’ Andromache. from the west wall of the winter triclinium in the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, * Support us via Amazon: https://t.co/NuYmgutB7d *

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2020-04-14

A reimagining of Euripides’ Medea as a divinity, done for my Greek Mythology elective. :)

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2018-04-19