Male and Female in The Medea and the Legend of Lilith
This paper refers to Euripides "The Medea" and the legend of Lilith as they point to themes of women's ulterior natures, particularly the vindictive power of female anger, in contrast with male stability, noble self-control, and virtue, as notions that run deep in Western civilization for they have more than one source. The West inherited ideas of the potential of the willful woman from both the Greeks and the Judeo-Christian tradition
