Women’s Adventures with Iphigenia
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2012

Abstract Several significant female cultural figures have used Euripides' Black Sea Iphigenia to reflect on their status as women and as civic subjects. When Lesya Ukrainka began her Ukrainian dramatic poem Iphigenia in Tauris in 1903, Iphigenia finally began to speak as a victim of Russian imperialism in Ukrainian territory (which includes the Crimea), as a lonely woman, a sister, and a socialist revolutionary. Much more recently, three women in the USA have staged Euripides' IT or written adap