Hi everyone. I hope you're enjoying Medea, although enjoying may not be exactly the right word.... maybe appreciating? If anyone has a pre-class question, comment, observation, etc. please let us all know. Be sure to review the "extras" in our edition, including the discussion of the "commonplace" notions about women that the ancient Greek audiences would have held. A few of the questions we'll be addressing on Weds. include:
1. Medea's motives
2. Medea's use of rhetoric (there is a reason why this play is known as a "tragedy of rhetoric"
3. What would Aristotle say?
4. How ultimatley do we view Medea? Jason? How do the gods see them?
I'm looking forward to our discussion on Weds!
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