Euripides study questions Is Medea representative of women?
Does the Medea constitute the 'new song' that the chorus wish for? What are the relations between women and language in these plays?
Is the Bacchae most interested in the maenads, or in Pentheus?
To what extent do the dramas seem to subscribe to the Hesiodic notion that women are the result of a separate act of creation, entirely different from men?
In what ways do the dramas question patriarchal ideology, and in what ways do the female characters confirm Athenian prejudices about women?
To what extent is the issue of gender in the plays identified with other issues such as family versus state, nature versus culture?