STUDY QUESTIONS FOR MEDEA, TRACHINIANS AND HIPPOLYTUS:

1. How is love represented in these three plays? More specifically, how is love seen differently in each of the three plays? What does it have in common in all three plays?

2. What are Medea, Deineira and Phaedra like? Other than being women, what do they have in common? How are they different?

3. How do Euripides and Sophocles convey these three women’s different personalities to their audiences?

4 Very different question: At least some of his contemporaries thought Euripides was a misogynist. Considering all of the plays of Euripides that we have read thus far, do you consider this characterization justified or not? Why?

5. What is each of these plays about? What will we talk about when we go to the wine shop after the play is over?