Euripides: Scenes from Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris


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This title includes the full text of Euripides' Scenes from Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris. The text is supplemented with Notes and includes an Introduction and Vocabulary by E. C. Kennedy.




Iphigenia at Aulis


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First English edition with commentary on one of Euripides' finest texts for 125 years, comprising two volumes sold together as a set (Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation; Volume 2: Commentary and Indexes).




Classical Greek and Roman Drama


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An essential companion for the student of literature. Works selected include the best-known works of the classical Greek and Roman theatre.







Iphigenia in Tauris


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Iphigenia in Tauris tells the story of the princess Iphigenia who was sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to expedite his campaign against Troy but was rescued by the goddess Artemis and transported to the land of the Taurians. There she herself must perform human sacrifices as a priestess of Artemis in the local cult.







Greek Tragedy


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Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.




Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris


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This book presents a cultural history of the Greek tragedy and its influence on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature.