Review of L.P.E. Parker (ed.), Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris
Journal: Acta Classica
Year: 2016

Iphigenia in Tauris (abbreviated as IT) is the Latin title of the play by Euripides known in English as Iphigenia among the Taurians. 'Tauris' is not strictly speaking a geographical term, although used as such by Goethe (Iphigenie auf Tauris) among others, and Parker might have offered more by way of explanation than a sarcastic footnote (p. lxxii n. 143). IT, produced about 414 BC, is one of Euripides' late plays, sometimes known as 'romances' or 'melodramas'. It is set in the Crimea, and rese