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INNOVATIONS IN THE PLOT

 


 


 

source (Diotima)

translation (C. A. Luschnig)


 

 


 
 
 

 

 

Did Euripides borrow from Neophron?
 

 

With some rearrangement of the parts, Euripides seems to have appropriated the drama from Neophron, according to Dikaiarchos ... in The Life of Greece and Aristotle in the Commentaries. They fault him that Medea has not maintained her role, but fell into tears when she plotted against Jason and his wife....