Iphigenia in Tauris, Euripides
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 19/08/2020

A reading and discussion of Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris (translation by Cecilia Luschnig), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guest Niall Slater (Emory University). Featured actors include Tim Delap, Alice Haig, Marietta Hedges, Brian Nelson Jr., Paul O'Mahony, and Noree Victoria.

Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu), the Kosmos Society (kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/), and Out of Chaos Theatre (out-of-chaos.co.uk). For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

More information about Playing Medea, a student competition, is at https://www.out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea.

Scene selections:
1-65: Iphigenia, Orestes, Pylades 
466-1088: Iphigenia, Orestes, Pylades, Chorus 
1153-1233: Iphigenia, Thoas, Chorus 
1422-1489: Thoas, Athena

Credits:
Iphigenia - Alice Haig
Orestes - Brian Nelson Jr
Pylades - Paul O’Mahony
Chorus - Marietta Hedges
Thoas - Tim Delap
Athena - Noree Victoria

Director - Paul O'Mahony

More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.

Suggested further reading:
1) Wright, M. 2005. Euripides’ escape-tragedies: A study of Helen, Andromeda, and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

2) Torrance, I. 2007. "Religion and gender in Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris." Helios 34.2: 177–206. 

3) O’Brien, M. J. 1988. "Pelopid history and the plot of Iphigenia in Tauris." Classical Quarterly, n.s., 38.1: 98–115.