Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris
Subtitle: a cultural history of Euripides' Black Sea tragedy
By: Edith Hall
Series: Onassis series in Hellenic culture; Onassis series in Hellenic culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780195392890
Description: Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings and exquisite poetry - these features have historically made Euripides' 'Iphigenia in Tauris' one of the most influential of Greek tragedies. With this book, Edith Hall provides a much-needed cultural history of this play, giving as much weight to the impact of the play on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature as on its manifestations since the discovery of the sole surviving medieval manuscript in the 1500s.
Table of contents: title: The play, its myth, and the date of its first production; title: Rediscovering Tauris; title: Iphigenia, quest heroine; title: Travel tragedy; title: Plots and pots; title: Orestes, Pylades, and Roman men; title: Imperial escapades; title: Escorts of Artemis; title: Iphigenia's Christian conversion; title: Gluck's Iphigénie in pain; title: Goethe's Iphigenie between Germany and the world; title: Rites of modernism; title: Women's adventures with Iphigenia; title: Decolonising Thoas.