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Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris : a cultural history of Euripides' Black Sea tragedy /

"This monograph is a cultural history of the performance, reception and influence of the ancient Greek tragedy Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides. First produced in the late 5th century BCE in Athens, this play was one of the most influential of all the canonical classical dramas in antiquity unt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hall, Edith, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:Onassis series in Hellenic culture.
University press scholarship online.
Subjects:
Euripides. > Iphigenia in Tauris.
Iphigenia in Tauris (Euripides)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The play, its myth, and the date of its first production
  • Rediscovering Tauris
  • Iphigenia, quest heroine
  • Travel tragedy
  • Plots and pots : the fourth-century popularity of Iphigenia in Tauris
  • Orestes, Pylades, and Roman men
  • Imperial escapades
  • Escorts of Artemis
  • The Christian conversion of Iphigenia
  • Gluck's IphigĂ©nie in pain
  • Goethe's Iphigenie between Germany and the world
  • Rites of modernism
  • Women's adventures with Iphigenia
  • Decolonising Thoas.