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Euripides
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gptkbp:award
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third prize at City Dionysia
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Ancient Greece
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431 BC
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gptkb:tragedy
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women of Corinth
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Medea (play)
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gptkb:Jean_Anouilh's_Médée
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gptkb:Aegeus
gptkb:Creon
gptkb:Glauce
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gptkbp:notablePerformance
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Maria Callas (film, 1969)
Diana Rigg (West End, 1992)
Judith Anderson (Broadway, 1948)
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gptkbp:notableQuote
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'I understand what evil I am about to do, but my wrath is stronger even than my thoughts.'
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true
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gptkb:Ancient_Greek
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Euripides' trilogy for the City Dionysia
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Medea takes revenge on her unfaithful husband Jason by killing their children.
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gptkb:Medea_(film,_1969)
gptkb:Medea_(Seneca)
Medea (Cherubini)
Medea (Corneille)
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gptkb:Corinth
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prologue, parodos, episodes, stasimon, exodus
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feminism
infanticide
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gptkb:passion
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exile
justice
revenge
motherhood
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