![]() ![]() What struck me when I read this play again (and it is one of my favourites) is how astute Euripides was to the plight of Greek women, and it was not as if it was any better elsewhere. (Trans Phillip Veracott)These few lines near the opening of Euripides' Medea pretty much describes what life was like for women in Ancient Greece: it was not pretty. Then the great question: will the manWe get be bad or good? For woman, divorce is notRespectable to repel the man, not possible. ![]() This is to aggravateWrong with worse wrong. ![]() When, for an extravagant sum,We have bought a husband, we must then accept him asPossessor of our body. Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we womenAre the most wretched. ![]()
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