Iphigenia in Tauris | Iphigenia in Tauris

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Author: Euripides
First Published: 414
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Melodrama
Time of Work: Several years after the Trojan War
Setting: Tauris, in the present-day Crimea
Genres: Drama, Melodrama, Tragedy
Subjects: Mythology or myths, Love or romance, War, Legends, Gods or goddesses, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Rites or ceremonies, Greek or Roman times, Sacrifice, Greece or Greek people, Oracles, Trojan War, Bronze Age, Temples
Locales: Greece, ancient, Crimea, Tauris

Iphigenia (IHF-uh-jih- NI-uh), the daughter of King Agamemnon, sister of Orestes and Electra, and a priestess of Artemis in Tauris. According to her opening monologue, Artemis took pity on her just as she was about to be sacrificed at Aulis, snatched her away from the priest’s knife, and left a deer in her place. Transported to the land of the barbarian Taurians, she became the priestess of Artemis; it is her duty to preside over the sacrificial murder of all strangers captured by the Taurians. She dislikes both her duties and the country, and her longing...

Iphigenia in Tauris | Iphigenia in Tauris

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