Add to ORKGThis article is a discussion of the political implications regarding the intersectional identities of Euripides' Medea and Pericles' partner Aspasia as she is portrayed in Plutarch's account. Both women are foreigners, and with this status comes similar xenophobic conclusions regarding their character. Both women are portrayed as overly masculine, dominant, sexually debased, and have a corruptive influence on their male partners. Sexual relationships, reversed power dynamics and questions of morality will all be highlighted within the discussion. The article concludes by suggesting that since the historical timeline and literary themes run congruently, it is possible that Euripides' drama was a thinly-veiled critique of Pericles' relat...
This article offers a new interpretation of Euripides' Phoenissae, and argues for a new source of un...
Barbarity is a recurrent yet elusive and therefore much debated theme in Euripidean drama. This art...
This article analyzes how Clitemnestra, in the Oresteia, claims the political power for itself and h...
For a number of years, Euripides\u27 Medea has been explored predominantly by feminist approaches, h...
This article examines how the paradoxical aspects of Medea's character point to one of the fundament...
Medea’s powerful ability to inspire and confuse is at the core of this study. The contradiction conc...
The thesis argues that the representation of divinely sanctioned infanticide in Euripides\u27 Medea ...
Riley Borst Kennesaw State University 1 November 2021 rborst@students.kennesaw.edu “The Oriental Pri...
Euripides’ Medea remains one of the most abidingly powerful of all Greek tragedies; its themes of lo...
Euripides\u27 Medea has been reinvented several times in the twentieth century. This paper uncovers ...
This is paper examines critically the fact that it is not the tragedy with a plot that is generally ...
From 460 to 429 BC, the dominant figure in Athens was the statesmen and general Pericles. Although a...
How does outrage work in Greek tragedy? Does the success or defeat of outraged characheters depend o...
In the last thirty years, Greek tragedy has been increasingly recognized as a ground of moral reflec...
This thesis focuses on Medea, the classical Greek play by Euripides that was first produced in 431 B...
This article offers a new interpretation of Euripides' Phoenissae, and argues for a new source of un...
Barbarity is a recurrent yet elusive and therefore much debated theme in Euripidean drama. This art...
This article analyzes how Clitemnestra, in the Oresteia, claims the political power for itself and h...
For a number of years, Euripides\u27 Medea has been explored predominantly by feminist approaches, h...
This article examines how the paradoxical aspects of Medea's character point to one of the fundament...
Medea’s powerful ability to inspire and confuse is at the core of this study. The contradiction conc...
The thesis argues that the representation of divinely sanctioned infanticide in Euripides\u27 Medea ...
Riley Borst Kennesaw State University 1 November 2021 rborst@students.kennesaw.edu “The Oriental Pri...
Euripides’ Medea remains one of the most abidingly powerful of all Greek tragedies; its themes of lo...
Euripides\u27 Medea has been reinvented several times in the twentieth century. This paper uncovers ...
This is paper examines critically the fact that it is not the tragedy with a plot that is generally ...
From 460 to 429 BC, the dominant figure in Athens was the statesmen and general Pericles. Although a...
How does outrage work in Greek tragedy? Does the success or defeat of outraged characheters depend o...
In the last thirty years, Greek tragedy has been increasingly recognized as a ground of moral reflec...
This thesis focuses on Medea, the classical Greek play by Euripides that was first produced in 431 B...
This article offers a new interpretation of Euripides' Phoenissae, and argues for a new source of un...
Barbarity is a recurrent yet elusive and therefore much debated theme in Euripidean drama. This art...
This article analyzes how Clitemnestra, in the Oresteia, claims the political power for itself and h...