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This study guide will help you analyze the play Medea by Euripides. You can also find a summary of the text, full characterizations, as well as inspiration for interpreting the play. Title: Medea (431 (…)

Medea’s relationship to motherhood in Euripides’ play is interesting to comment on . It can be considered surprising that Medea involves her children in the conflict with their father. She seems to li (…)

Medea's nurse is an old woman who raised Medea and now also takes care of her children. She opens the action of Euripides’ play with her words in the Prologue, offering an insight into the Argonau (…)

This study guide will help you analyze the short story “The Valley” (1995) by Rick Bass. You can also find a summary of the text, as well as inspiration for interpreting it and putting it into perspec (…)

The short story “The Valley” by Rick Bass can be considered an example of ecofiction or green fiction. Green fiction is a recent branch of literature that focuses heavily on nature and its importance, (…)

Our in-depth analysis of Euripides' tragedy Medea sheds light on various building blocks of the play. It takes a look at the structure of the classical ancient tragedy Medea and considers the individu (…)

The classical closed drama is characterized by the focus on a very compact group of people and the observance of the status clause. These characteristics fit Euripides' play Medea quite perfectly. The (…)

The attendant of the children in Euripides' play Medea is a "Grey guard" who teaches Jason and Medea’s children. He appears only briefly, at the beginning and end of the plot. In the Pro (…)

Aegeus is king of Athens and "son of the wise Pandion". He appears briefly in Euripides’ play Medea. He comes to Corinth by chance and is on his way back from the oracle of Phoebus as he wan (…)

The chorus of Corinthian women reflects on the major events that takes place in Euripides’ play Medea. Although the chorus represents a community of several people, they are represented on stage by a (…)