Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris

Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings and exquisite poetry - these features have historically made Euripides' 'Iphigenia in Tauris' one of the most influential of Greek tragedies. With this book, Edith Hall provides a much-needed cultural history of this play, giving as much weight to the impact of the play on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature as on its manifestations since the discovery of the sole surviving medieval manuscript in the 1500s.

Year

2012

Language

English

Series

Onassis series in Hellenic culture

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Editions

1

Pages

378

ISBN

9780195392890

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