“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” - Maimonides. The chorus lines, “O the terror- the suffering for all the world to see the worst terror that ever met my eyes” (Sophocles Oedipus the King 1011) parallels Euripides’s tragedies, Medea and Iphigenia At Aulis, and Sophocles’s tragedy, Oedipus the King. This line parallels Medea when she killed her brother and goes to kill her children. She suffers in the end, having no family left. In addition, Jason suffers when Medea kills his fiancé, Glauce. In the tragedy Iphigenia At Aulis, Agamemnon and Menelaus fight over the sacrifice of Iphigenia for their fear of not getting any wind. Clytemnestra suffers when her eldest daughter is not getting married to Achilles…show more content… Especially in Oedipus the King, Oedipus’s biological and “fake” parents set out to “let him go” because they fear his prophecy. Also Oedipus suffers when he hurts himself from the fear of his prophecy and when he finds out the truth. The Chorus line, “O the terror- the suffering for all the world to see the worst terror that have ever met my eyes” (Euripides Medea) is parallel primarily to the terror which Medea has that leads to her to kill her brother and that eventually leads her to kill Glauce, and her own children. For example, Medea suffers from murdering Absyrtus because she feared her father catching up to them and he needed to be distracted for Jason to fulfil his quest and as a result, Jason leaves her and she has no one but her children who aren’t even full citizens in Corinth because of her. When Medea questions why she is going to be exiled Creon tells her, “ And I have heard of your threats- they told me of them- to injure bridegroom and bride and father of the…show more content… It is also parallel to Agamemnon not telling his wife, Clytemnestra, and his daughter, Iphigenia, that he was going to kill Iphigenia. For instance, Menelaus tries to convince Agamemnon to kill his daughter and do what the people need, not what he needs. In the agon of the tragedy, Menelaus tells Agamemnon, “That is just the time when his friends ought to be able to count on him, when his prosperity enables him to do more for them than ever”(Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis 322). Menelaus wants Agamemnon to sacrifice Iphigenia to Artemis because the Greeks need to sail to Troy. If Agamemnon is able to help out in any way then he should, because the Greeks count on him. Agamemnon is the leader of the Greek host, so he should put his people first. Furthermore, Agamemnon does not tell Iphigenia at first that he needs to sacrifice her. He fears that she will run and he needed her to come to him. Clytemnestra found this information and then told Achilles, “So he made the marriage a pretext. And then the marriage brought me here (Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis 334).” Agamemnon does not tell Clytemnestra about the sacrifice because he fears that she will tell Iphigenia and have her run away. Without his sacrifice to Artemis there would be no wind, which would be a disaster for the Greeks. Moreover when Agamemnon finally agrees to sacrifice his
