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Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris

Emily Kearns editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Mar '23

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A full literary and linguistic commentary, suitable for intermediate and advanced students, on this enduringly popular and suspenseful play.

Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a suspenseful drama which explores themes of family loyalty, Greeks and barbarians, and the nature of the gods. The Introduction and Commentary specifically help undergraduates and above tackling the play in Greek.Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a suspenseful drama set on the Black Sea coast in what is now Crimea, which explores themes of family loyalty, Greeks and barbarians, and the nature of the gods. The plot combines an unrecognised meeting between Iphigeneia, now a priestess of Artemis among the Taurians, and her brother Orestes, who with his friend Pylades has been captured and brought to her for sacrifice, with an exciting escape attempt for all three, ultimately brought about by divine intervention. This edition includes a full Introduction to the literary and production aspects of the play, while the Commentary elucidates problems of language as well as interpretation. These combine to make the play fully accessible to intermediate-level undergraduates and graduate students wishing to read it in the original Greek.

'Any 'intermediate level undergraduate' who is tasked with studying IT should acquaint him/herself with K.'s edition, and consider him/herself very fortunate.' Colin Leach, Classics for All

ISBN: 9781107041806

Dimensions: 223mm x 146mm x 23mm

Weight: 500g

320 pages