Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides - Reading Greek Tragedy Online
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-04-22

A reading and discussion of Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis (translated by Edward Coleridge). Tamieka Chavis, Tim Delap, Michael Lumsden, Evvy Miller, Richard Neale, Paul O'Mahony, and Eunice Roberts perform select scenes, with Adam Barnard, Mat Carbon (Queen's University at Kingston), and Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) leading the discussion. 

Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

Text available at https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg018.perseus-eng2:0-21/?highlight

Scene selections:
317-334 - Agamemnon and Menelaus
413-542 - Agamemnon, Menelaus, messenger, chorus
598-750 - chorus, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia, Agamemnon 
801-855 - Clytemnestra, Achilles
1211-1275 - Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, Iphigenia, chorus
1338-1510 - Iphigenia, Clytemnestra, Chorus, Achilles
1613-1627 - Chorus, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon

Credits:
Iphigenia - Evvy Miller
Clytemnestra - Eunice Roberts
Agamemnon - Michael Lumsden
Menelaus - Paul O’Mahony
Achilles - Tim Delap
Chorus - Tamieka Chavis
Messenger - Richard Neale 

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) Foley, H. P. 1982. "Marriage and sacrifice in Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis." Arethusa 15.1–2: 159–180. 

2) Saïd, S. 2002. "Greeks and barbarians in Euripides’ tragedies: The end of differences?" In Greeks and barbarians. Edited by Thomas Harrison, 62–100. New York: Routledge. 

3) "Iphigenia in Jerusalem" by Molly Levine: https://eidolon.pub/iphigenia-in-jerusalem-48ba4f15565f