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Euripides! Master! How Well Yo
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In this paper I will demonstrate why I believe, contrary to widespread opinion and possible even his own, that Aristophanes, not Euripides, was, of the four major dramatists fo Athens' Golden Age, the one who least respected women.
Having become aware at the ouset of this leterrature course of the ....
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....taemnestra, a gullible, ususpecting Agamemnon and a spineless, parasitical Aegisthus, achieve the result of satirizing those attitudes. At the close of the play, Clytaemnestra challenges her listeners, on-stage and off: "That is what a woman has to say. Can you accept the truth?"
Sophocles takes it one step further. His heroine is not a murderess, but a young women driven by deeply held ideals and familial love. I don't know there could be any doubt in any viewer's mind as to who is the "good gu.... |
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