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... Medea's speech upon Jason's arrival in her father's kingdom , the significance of the comparison is drawn less from verbal parallels than from corre- spondences of mood and structure in the speeches . The one clear echo of Ovid's Medea ...
... Medea's speech upon Jason's arrival in her father's kingdom , the significance of the comparison is drawn less from verbal parallels than from corre- spondences of mood and structure in the speeches . The one clear echo of Ovid's Medea ...
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... Medea's initial response to Jason goes a long way toward distinguishing his portrait of Medea in the Metamorphoses from other versions of the popular legend . Euripides ' play of the fifth century B.C. , in contrast , takes place on the ...
... Medea's initial response to Jason goes a long way toward distinguishing his portrait of Medea in the Metamorphoses from other versions of the popular legend . Euripides ' play of the fifth century B.C. , in contrast , takes place on the ...
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... Medea's declamatory speech maintains the pace and elevation of the nar- rative in which it is imbedded , primarily because of its rapid exposi- tion of Medea's rapidly changing psyche . By presenting the long speech as if in the young ...
... Medea's declamatory speech maintains the pace and elevation of the nar- rative in which it is imbedded , primarily because of its rapid exposi- tion of Medea's rapidly changing psyche . By presenting the long speech as if in the young ...
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