HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parodos, Physis, Euripides
8 Dec 2016
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Euripides" portrait of jason: hero, husband, rational, calm, logical, weakling, detached, civilized and greek: jason and medea: nomos and physis respectively. Nomos: is a greek term which describes man-made laws, order, civilization, control, stability, power (men) Physis: is a greek term which describes natural laws, instinct, chaos, irrationality and destruction (women) Born in 480 b. c. in salamis island on the day of the victory over persians (battle of. Died in 406 b. c. by voluntary exile in macedonia. Competed in 22 festivals and it took him 14 years to win first prize. Wrote at least 88 plays; he was an active writer. Won first prize only five times because he was deemed strange and eccentric by. Athenians; he loved his solitude (wrote in a cave on salamis island) He was unpopular with the judges and audience because of his antisocial habits and controversial plays; associated with sophists.
