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Harvard Classical Club. "The Medea of Euripides." Reading II. Mr. W. C. Lawton. Sever 11, 7.30 p. m. The public are invited...
Harvard Classical Club. "The Medea of Euripides." Reading II. Mr. W. C. Lawton. Sever 11, 7.30 p. m. The public are invited...
CLASSICAL CLUB.Mr. W. C. Lawton's second reading from the "Medea of Euripides" will take place in Sever 11 on Tuesday, January 15, at 7.30 p. m. The public are invited...
...Medea, one of the three oldest play of the poet whose dates are known, seems to us a more painful tale than it did to the Athenians. We love children and sympathize with them more than the ancients, who only valued their offspring as a means of perpetuating the family name and traditions. The great attraction of the play lies in the fact that it illustrates the character of the best Greek work...
...these requisites are present in the Medea, which is also comparatively free from the digressions which often mar the work of Euripides. The grouping of the actors on the stage assisted the unity of the piece by directing the attention to the central figure. The plot itself was almost bodily borrowed from the piece of Neophron, but great skill is shown in leading up to the catastrophe. The poet makes us understand the conduct of Medea, although no real sympathy with her unnatural deed is possible. Medea herself was, in the minds of the Athenians, a real and terrible woman...