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Pausanias, Description of Greece | 138 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 66 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Aristotle, Politics | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Enter Medea with the Nurse from the house.
Medea
Women of Corinth, I have come out of the house lest you find some fault with me. For I know that though many mortals are haughty both in private and in public, others get a reputation for indifference to their neighbors from their retiring manner of life. There is no justice in mortals' eyes since before they get sure knowledge of a man's true character they hate him on sight, although he has done them no harm. Now a foreigner must be quite compliant with the city, nor do I have any words of praise for the citizen who is stubborn and causes his fellow-citizens pain by his lack of breeding. In my case, however, this sudden blow that has struck me has destroyed my life. I am undone, I have resigned all joy in life, and I want to die. For the man in whom all I had was bound up, as I well know—my husband—has proved the basest of men.
Of all creatures that have breath and sensation, we women are the most unfortunate. First at an exor