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How to use Medea in a sentence

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Plato and the Stoics see Medea in terms of very different accounts of human psychology and the emotions.
Or how about Medea as an evil foreigner confirming the xenophobic prejudices of an early Greek democracy?
The Euripidean portrait of Medea as an infanticide had roots in the folkloric paradigm of the child-killing demon.
While still at school he translated Euripides Medea from Greek into Latin iambics.
One school of ancient philosophers, the Stoics, developed a distinctive view of Medea as part of their ethics and psychology.
Are there really two distinct things operating in Medea, her plans and her furious anger?
A statue showing Medea about to slaughter her children symbolizes the reproof of infanticide. In this case, death is clearly shown as a contained force, even a holy force.
To curry political favor — for himself and for his family — he leaves Medea for Princess Glauke, King Kreon's daughter.
By way of example, she describes how the Medea Group helped a major wine producer meet this sort of challenge.
Before exemplifying infanticide, Medea is a political figure, who links the worlds, who crosses lands and political classifications.
The aim is to make the audience part of the action, accompanying Medea on her long progress from victim to raging murderess.
Medea is a very good parser that lets you override the default parser so you can parse everything as a list rather than as a list or a vector.
Squabby's mother was named Medea after she accidentally dislodged an egg from her nest.
The poem breaks off in Book VIII with Medea begging Jason not to send her back to Colchis.
Probably Aristotle also disapproved of Medea as a tragic heroine, because he downgraded plots like this one that show a good person deliberately choosing evil.
On their return Medea murdered Pelias, but she and Jason were driven out by Pelias' son and had to take refuge with King Creon of Corinth.
When I came into drama school, I assumed it would be straight away into the National: show me the dead baby monologues, show me Medea.
This project also illustrates the value of our Medea logistical technology in a complex environment and on a very large scale.
Medea was popular enough to be repeatedly restaged in the next century, and was re-created in Latin by Seneca for the brutal world of the early Roman Empire.
Benjamin, however, had read another version, one in which Medea was simply misunderstood.
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She does not pray for a Medea to thrust her into a cauldron of rejuvenescence.
At length, when they had gone further and further into the heart of the duskiness, Medea squeezed Jason's hand.
It was emblematic of a new state of society when Euripides created the Phaedra and the Medea.
So Talos, for all his frame of bronze, yielded the victory to the might of Medea the sorceress.
The cunning Medea observed what was passing in the young man's mind.
Gazing at Medea, he beheld a wonderful intelligence in her face.
Because she was no Alcestis need she be called a Medea or a Clytemnestra?
The Medea, the troas, and the Hippolytus, are ascribed to him.
In reply to this question, the wicked Medea put in her word.
So he thought that Medea was some archduchess whose conduct was open to criticism.
Nature herself Makes war on her own loveliness and slays Her children like Medea.
Observing this, Medea looked round at the nephews, and smiled again.
It is thus too that Euripides makes Medea slay her children.
But when the wicked Medea saw this new turn of affairs, she hurried out of the room, and going to her private chamber, lost no time to setting her enchantments to work.
Forthwith Medea made Aeson a sweet young boy and stripped his old age from him by her cunning skill, when she had made a brew of many herbs in her golden cauldrons.
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