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2. Medea - Wikipedia

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   Medea About to Murder Her Children by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix (1862) In Euripides's play Medea, she is a woman scorned, rejected by her husband Jason and revenge seeking. Deborah Boedeker writes about different images and symbolism Euripides used in his play to evoke responses from his original Athenian audience. [ 36 ]

3. Medea (play) - Wikipedia

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   Medea is centered on Medea's calculated desire for revenge against her unfaithful husband. Medea is of divine descent and had the gift of prophecy. She married Jason and used her magic powers and advice to help him find and retrieve the golden fleece. The play is set in Corinth some time after Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, where he met ...

4. Medea (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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   It was written around 50 CE. The play is about the vengeance of Medea against her betraying husband Jason and King Creon. The leading role, Medea, delivers over half of the play's lines. [2] Medea addresses many themes, one being that the title character represents "payment" for humans' transgression of natural laws. [3] She was sent by the ...

5. Margaret Garner - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Satterwhite Noble's 1867 painting The Modern Medea was based on Garner's story.. Margaret Garner, called "Peggy" (died 1858), was an enslaved African American woman who killed her own daughter and intended to kill her other three children and herself rather than be forced back into slavery. [1]

6. Rachel Cusk - Wikipedia

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   In 2015, the Almeida theatre commissioned and originally produced Cusk's adaption of Medea as Medea - Euripides, A New Version. [24] In Cusk's adaptation, Medea does not murder her children. [5] Reviewing Medea, the Financial Times commented: "Rachel Cusk is known as an unsparing writer in the territory of marital break-up". [25]

7. Children’s book tells story of tennis partners who persevered ...

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   Her new nonfiction children’s picture book is “Perfect Match: The Story of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton.” She said she was inspired that neither woman let hatred stop her from playing the ...

8. A Man Was Going Down the Road - Wikipedia

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   Medea – is a sorceress who was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, [3] niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce. [4]

9. Jenna Elfman on homeschooling her 2 sons: 'I'm a feminist, so ...

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   Welcome to So Mini Ways, Yahoo Life's parenting series on the joys and challenges of child rearing.. The sitcom Dharma & Greg put Jenna Elfman on the map, but in real life her better half for the ...