By Donald J. Mastronarde
During this booklet Professor Mastronarde attracts at the seventeen surviving tragedies of Euripides, in addition to the fragmentary is still of his misplaced performs, to discover key themes within the interpretation of the performs. It investigates their relation to the Greek poetic culture and to the social and political buildings in their unique surroundings, aiming either to be aware of the good number of the corpus and to spot commonalities throughout it. In studying such subject matters as style, structural concepts, the refrain, the gods, rhetoric, and the portrayal of girls and males, this examine highlights the ways that viewers responses are manipulated by utilizing plot constructions and the multiplicity of viewpoints expressed. It argues that the dramas of Euripides, via their dramatic procedure, pose a robust problem to easy formulations of norms, to the analyzing of constant human personality, and to the hunt for sure bet and closure.
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It, too, reflects the overspecification to which the arguments about education fell victim in this period. Of course, poetry may make people better, but in what sense of “goodness” are they better? And what of “in the cities”? ”) Can this really be taken to reflect the fact that tragedy primarily appeals to the audience-member as a citizen, or is it rather a narrowing of the goal that suits Aristophanes’ plot, which seeks a poet to save Athens from its decline and decides the contest at the end with a specific political riddle, the kind of advice that even most proponents of the civic educational force of tragedy do not think that tragedy gives?
4) Attic tragedy exploits many different conventions of style and presentation and freely mixes elements of realism or psychological depth with artistic contrivance, stylization, conventionality, and the needs of communication in an engaging and effective way to the external audience. (5) Our evidence for the variety of style, tone, and subject-matter in fifth-century tragedy is seriously deficient. 69 It is therefore prudent to avoid any overconfidence in simple generalizations drawn from what survives.
Creon arrives to order her into immediate exile with her sons, to forestall any violence against his daughter. Medea persuades him to allow her one more day to prepare for exile, and after he leaves tells the chorus she will get her revenge before leaving, but is not yet sure of the best way to do so. Jason arrives to offer Medea help in exile, but she denounces him in a formal speech of accusation, to which he replies by explaining the motivation of his new marriage and the benefits it will bring to his sons.