CLA232H1 Lecture : 2012-02-15_Lecture#11-Euripides Medea.doc
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431 bce: knowing this play: which side do you think euripides would come down on, tragedy would support the male side, the audience would also be male dominated, very little evidence of women present. If women were present, there would be very few of them: why else would you expect euripides to take the side of jason instead of. Medea"s: euripides is greek, he is a man. It is not as simple and nuanced: foreign women is more rational, civilized and even superior to male. Greek hero: same tension in gender with ethnicity. On the one hand, there is polar thinking. 2012-02-15: men are always good and women are always bad, how do we understand what tragedies depicting strong women in a very male centered context, many of the women in these plays do end up having bad ends. People talk about her wild nature and compared to tiger.
