The Iphigenia In Tauris

Description

This is the translation of the Euripides play about the princess Iphigeneia who narrowly avoided death by sacrifice at the hands of her father, Agamemnon. She was saved by the goddess Artemis, to whom the sacrifice was to be made, and swept off to Tauris. As a priestess at the goddess' temple, she has the gruesome task of ritually sacrificing foreigners who land on King Thoas's shores. It has much in common with another of the Greek playwright's work, Helen, as well as the lost play Andromeda, and is often described as a romance, a melodrama, a tragi-comedy or an escape play.

First Sentence

Child of the man of torment and of pride

Subjects

Other Editions

• The Iphigenia In TaurisPaperbackKessinger Publishing2004-05-31
• Euripidis Iphigenia Taurica.in Libraria Weidmannia1833-01-01
• Iphigenie in TaurenWeidmannsche Buchhandlung1872-01-01
• Iphigenia among the TauriansGinn1889-01-01
• Iphigenia in TaurisAmerican Book Co.1904-01-01
• Iphigenia in Tauris.Clarendon Press1938-01-01