Publication Date

Spring 5-3-2026

School

College of Arts and Sciences

Major

English

Keywords

Medea, Euripides, Existentialism, Fate

Abstract

Euripides’ Medea stands out as a tragic protagonist because the values she exhibits throughout his play do not seem to align with those of the Greeks in the fifth century BC. This thesis seeks to perform a reading of Medea as an atheistic Existential protagonist in order to show that Existential values have existed for thousands of years but would have been disdained by early cultures whose traditional values of structured, ritualistic religion and communalism disagree strongly with the individualism and disregard for organized religion espoused by atheistic Existentialism.

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