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A 5 page paper which examines the status of women in each of the two ancient Greek plays. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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contrary, it resembled an elitist social club in which membership was reserved only for its male members. It was this hypocrisy that popular dramatists of the fifth century B.C.,
Euripides and Aristophanes, satirically lampooned in their plays. Greece may have worshipped the goddess Athena, but in society, it was clearly a mans world. This lack of status
relegated women to the role of subservient slaves while their male counterparts were the controlling masters. As such diverse works as Euripides Medea and Aristophanes Lysistrata illustrate, when a
group is excluded from participation, not only does it suffer but society as a whole is handicapped because it is not taking full advantage of its human resources. As Medea,
in which the tragic Colchian protagonist does the unthinkable when she kills her children as an act of revenge against her philandering husband Jason, reveals, women had no status of
their own. They were defined solely by the position of their "fathers or husbands" (Pantziara 28). Euripides intentionally constructed an unspeakable tragedy as his way of demanding the
attention of his fellow citizens who seemed to be blissfully ignorant of the fact that in Athens, a blatant disregard was being shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos
435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, "Marriage removed a woman from the protection of her father and placed her under the protection of her husband.
She was subject to her lord... and absolutely dependent upon him for her and her childrens survival" (435). This was even true of a princess who was blessed
with the powers of sorcery. When she fell passionately in love with Jason, the commander of the Argonauts, she killed her brother and completely relinquished whatever status her royal
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