Notesale: Turn your study into money

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Would to Heaven the good ship Argo ne'er had sped its course to the Colchian land
through the misty blue Symplegades, nor ever in the glens of Pelion the pine been
felled to furnish with oars the chieftain's hands, who went to fetch the golden
fleece for PeliasWhen in excess and past all limits Love doth come, he brings not
glory or repute to man; but if the Cyprian queen in moderate might approach, no
goddess is so full of charm as she
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Yea, a fine reproach to thee in thy bridal hour, that thy children and the wife who
saved thy life are beggars and vagabonds! O Zeus! why hast thou granted unto
man clear signs to know the sham in gold, while on man's brow no brand is
stamped whereby to gauge the villain's heart?
Give me no gold within my halls, nor skill to sing a fairer strain than ever Orpheus
sang, unless there-with my fame be spread abroad!
For I will send them with gifts in their hands, carrying them unto the bride to save
them from banishment, a robe of finest woof and a chaplet of gold
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I well know, aught that now is seen 'mongst men, a robe of finest tissue and a
chaplet of chased gold
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Its grace and sheen divine will tempt her to put on the robe and crown of gold, and
in that act will she deck herself to be a bride amid the dead
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Soon as she saw the ornaments, no longer she held out, but yielded to her lord in
all; and ere the father and his sons were far from the palace gone, she took the
broidered robe and put it on, and set the golden crown about her tresses,
arranging her hair at her bright mirror, with many a happy smile at her breathless
counterfeit
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these are scions of thy own golden seed, and the blood of gods is in danger of
being shed by man
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480 – 406 BC), tragedian, classical Athens, Salamis Island, made a home
for himself in a cave on Salamis
• About 90 plays in total, about 18-19 survived
• Sympathy towards all victims of society, including women
• Myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC
• Medea taking revenge on her husband
• Her position in the Greek world threatened
• Corinth, after Golden Fleece
• Euripides makes an excellent use of the color gold to emphasize how great wealth
comes hand in hand with great misery
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• I well know, aught that now is seen 'mongst men, a robe of finest tissue and a chaplet of
chased gold
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• The chaplet of gold about her head was sending forth a wondrous stream of ravening
flame, while the fine raiment, thy children's gift, was preying on the hapless maiden's
fair white flesh; and she starts from her seat in a blaze and seeks to fly, shaking her hair
and head this way and that, to cast the crown therefrom; but the gold held firm to its
fastenings, and the flame, as she shook her locks, blazed forth the more with double
fury

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