Tragedy was only one of a number of performing art forms current Of the times and (first) of some of what Medea’s original audience might have comeĭrama – a brief history and some technicalities To provide something of a general background to the play and to this book, we should begin by outlining a little of the history So, to set Medea in its historical context and Of Athens’ escalating conflict with Corinth and her Peloponnesian allies, and it may be that he was hinting at these To judge by his later works, Euripides was probably cautious You away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it’. (in the words of the late American political scientist, George Kennan), ‘war has a momentum of its own and it carries ‘first citizen’, Pericles, was promising a relatively easy victory, many knew that, once conflict is unleashed To chronicle the coming conflict that Herodotus returned to Athens at around this time – and, although the democracy’s ‘In peace time sons bury their fathers, but in war fathersīury their sons.’ If the historian Herodotus was in Athens’ Theatre of Dionysus on that brisk March morning inĤ31 bc, he may well have thought of these, his own words, as he watched Medea unfold to its bitter end, where Jason cannot even touch his dead sons, let alone bury them.įor, that spring, war was in the air – indeed, tradition suggests that it was
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