![]() ![]() The play’s questioning of women’s subordinate position was a highly unconventional attitude and a reflection of Euripides’s own views that he used to raise an interest for his audience about women’s rights, duties and relationships.Īdditionally, the family was extremely important in Greek culture, as was adherence to religious rites such as proper burial. In the fifth century BC, the historian Thucydides wrote: ‘The greatest glory is to be least talked about among men, whether in praise or blame’. For that reason, it is pertinent that Medea is taken to Athens at the end of the play, in the Sun god’s own chariot.Īlthough the ancient Greeks are famous for establishing democracy, they restricted the role of women in society and enslaved other peoples. At the time when Euripides wrote Medea, Athens still represented the epitome of civilised, balanced culture and democracy. ![]() By 500 BC Athens was the artistic centre of Greece but Sparta was the major power and head of the alliance of city-states until Athens destroyed the attack fleet of the Persians in 480–479 BC. Politically, Greece consisted of city-states such as Athens (Attica), Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, Megara and Argos. ![]() ![]() The Greek civilisation which produced tragedies such as Euripides’ Medea flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. ![]()
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