Jiang reads Trojan Women as a direct response to Athens's attack on Melos, confronting Athenians with the suffering their empire inflicted on women and children.
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Athenian Democracy
Jiang reads Trojan Women as a direct response to Athens's attack on Melos, confronting Athenians with the suffering their empire inflicted on women and children.
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"But Euripides, he criticized Athenian democracy. All right? So, the example is, in 415 BCE, and this is the height of the Peloponnesian War,..."
"Okay? And been forced to be the mistress or concubine of the Greek, uh, heroes like Odysseus. Okay? Then you have Andromache. Andromache um,..."
"And so, Hecuba must portionally bury the dead child. Okay? And so, it is a play that made everyone in Athens weep. What makes..."
"...the death of his mentor, Socrates. And so it was the Athenian democracy who killed his mentor. So he passionately hates democracy, okay? Well,..."
"...was the, uh, in the Oedipus Rex, um, trilogy, they celebrate Athenian democracy."
"...if you think about it, OK, even though Euripides is criticizing Athenian democracy, what he's really doing is also trying to defend Athenian democracy...."
"...should know from your research, Pericles is considered the father of Athenian democracy. He is the one who spreads democracy throughout Athens. And historians..."
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