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Medea and Electra | Sixth Episode: The Messenger Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What causes the Messenger’s haste from the palace?

2. How does Medea initially respond to the news that Creon and the princess are dead?

3. Why does Medea exhort the Messenger to tell his tale slowly?

4. To whom does the Messenger compare the princess, when he speaks of the honor he and the other servants pay her?

5. According to the Messenger, how did the princess first react upon seeing Medea’s children?

6. What made the princess change her mind?

7. How much time elapsed between the bestowal of the gifts and...


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