The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides
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The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides is a work by Euripides, translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray. The preface says that The Iphigenia in Tauris is not in the modern sense a tragedy; it is a romantic play, beginning in a tragic atmosphere and moving through perils and escapes to a happy end. The preface says all Greek tragedies that we know have as their nucleus something which the Greeks called an Aition, a cause or origin.
The text says that, as usual in Euripides, the central character of this play is a woman most unsparingly yet lovingly studied, and that Iphigenia is no mere sympathetic heroine. Iphigenia asks Orestes, "And thou art Lord of Argolis?", and Orestes answers, "Our uncle rules. I walk an exile's ways." A note says the singing Swan is not a myth; it is a migratory swan, with a bell-like cry, which comes in the winter down from South Russia to Greece.
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- Euripides
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- English
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- Classical Poetry
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