EURIPIDES PERSUADES US THAT LOVE IS WHAT MAKES US HUMAN
(Michael Bulley's letter appeared in the Guardian, 3/14; Photo: the Guardian.) We ruin, waste and trivialise human life by ignoring that, writes Michael Bulley Charlotte Higgins is right to see Medea, in Euripides's tragedy, as heroic (Greek tragedies like Medea are an ethical nightmare. That's why we need them, 11 March). Euripides presents Jason, Medea's husband, […]