IPHIGENIA

ĭfˌəjənīˈə, in Greek legend, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. When the Greek ships were delayed by contrary winds at Aulis en route to the Trojan War, Calchas informed Agamemnon that Artemis demanded the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia. Agamemnon reluctantly agreed, and, despite Clytemnestra's protestations, Iphigenia nobly consented to die for the glory of Greece. Another legend contends that Artemis saved her life by substituting a hind at the altar and then carried her off to the land of the Taurians to serve as her high priestess. Years later Iphigenia had the opportunity of saving the life of her brother (Orestes), and she escaped with him to Greece. Euripides recounts both legends in his plays Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris.

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Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus
Book by James Morwood, Euripides; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Bacchantes--Drama, Dionysus (Greek Deity)--Drama, Euripides--Translations Into English, Iphigenia (Greek Mythology)--Drama, Pentheus (Greek Mythology)--Drama, Rhesus (Legendary Character)--Drama
IPHIGENIA. You cannot trust a Greek. THOAS. Attendants, go and bind them. IPHIGENIA. And they must bring the strangers out here . . . THOAS. This shall be done. IPHIGENIA. . . . their heads hidden in their robes...
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Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides
Includes: Alcestis; Medea; Helen; Iphigenia at Aulis
Book by Ruby Blondell, Mary-Kay Gamel, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Bella Zweig, Euripides; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Alcestis (Greek Mythology)--Drama/, Euripides--Translations Into English, Greek Drama (Tragedy)--Translations Into English, Helen Of Troy (Greek Mythology)--Drama, Iphigenia (Greek Mythology)--Drama, Medea (Greek Mythology)--Drama, Women--Mythology--Drama
IPHIGENIA: I dont understand what youre saying...sensibly you make me cry even more. IPHIGENIA: Then Ill talk nonsense, if I can make...strength to keep silent! Thank you. 99 655 IPHIGENIA: Stay at home, Daddy, with your children...
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Iphigenia in Tauris: A Play in Five Acts
Book by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Charles E. Passage; Frederick Ungar, 1963
Subjects: Fiction
...Task until he has sent his permission. IPHIGENIA: But that is left up wholly to the priestess...circumstance the king must know of. IPHIGENIA: His counsel, like his command, will...powerful are often asked for forms sake. IPHIGENIA: Do not insist on what I should refuse...
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Iphigeneia at Aulis
Book by W. S. Merwin, George E. Dimock Jr., Euripides; Oxford University Press, 1992
Subjects: Iphigenia (Greek Mythology)--Drama
...door . Come, child. You know what your father means to do. Wrap the baby Orestes in your robe and bring him with you. IPHIGENIA enters from the left door, carrying ORESTES. With her free hand she covers her face with her robe . CLYTEMNESTRA too keeps...
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Book by Paul Harvey; Clarendon Press, 1937
Subjects: Classical Dictionaries, Classical Literature--Dictionaries
...5. Iphianassa, the name under which Iphigenia q.v. figures in Hom. Il. ix. 145...Melampus . Iphicrates, see Army , 1. Iphigenia Iphigeneia , in Greek mythology, a daughter...Agamemnons daughter, and Agamemnon sent for Iphigenia on the pretext that she was to be married...
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Touring the Ivies with Iphigenia, 1915
Journal article by Niall W. Slater; Comparative Drama, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Barker, Harley Granville--Criticism and interpretation, Barker, Harley Granville--Works, Greek drama--Criticism and interpretation, Iphigenia in Tauris (Euripides) (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, McCarthy, Lillah--Performances, Murray, Gilbert--Works, The Trojan Women (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Theatrical actors--Performances, Theatrical directors--Criticism and interpretation, Theatrical directors--Works, Theatrical producers and directors--Criticism and interpretation, Theatrical producers and directors--Works, Translators (Persons)--Works
Touring the Ivies with Iphigenia, 1915. by Niall W. Slater When...1904. Trojan Women, Medea, and Iphigenia in Tauris with McCarthy in the title...translations: the Trojan Women and the Iphigenia in Tauris. Supported by university...
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Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart: (A Rave Fable)
Journal article by Caridad Svich; TheatreForum, 2004
Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That...Fable) by Caridad Svich Characters: IPHIGENIA, a spinning girl of privileged means...background an image is projected on screen: IPHIGENIA, in a pink Chanel outfit, sits next...
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Goethe's Iphigenie and Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris
Journal article by Kevin Lee; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2003
Subjects: Dramatists, Euripides (484-06 BC), Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), Modifications, Theater criticism
Goethes Iphigenie and Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris by Kevin Lee On 19 January...imaginative-in which Goethe made Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris his own. Clearly Goethes reworking...background related by the Euripidean Iphigenia in the prologue with the emotional intensity...
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Iphigenia in Aulis at la Mama: Microculture and Musicality in the Work of Gardzienice
Journal article by Ben Spatz; Slavic and East European Performance, Vol. 28, 2008
Subjects: Euripides (484-06 BC), Gardzienice, New York, Theater
Iphigenia in Aulis at la Mama: Microculture and...the Work of Gardzienice by Ben Spatz IPHIGENIA IN AULIS AT LA MAMA: MICROCULTURE AND...with its new work based on Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis.1 The company also spent an...
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Subjective Dispersion in Iphigenie or the Unbearable Fullness of Being
Journal article by Roland Racevskis; French Forum, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: French drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Iphigenia (Mythological figure)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Iphigenie (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Racine, Jean--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Self--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Orestes, from his station near us, will cry in childish accents, inarticulate, yet fraught with meaning" (Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, in Great Books of the World, vol. 5, AEschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, ed. Robert Maynard...
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magazine articles on: Iphigenia  - 60 results

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Iphigenia Gets Down
Magazine article by Ali Rohrs; American Theatre, Vol. 23, September 2006
Subjects: Dramatists--Works, Iphigenia (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works, Svich, Caridad--Works
Iphigenia Gets Down. by Ali Rohrs "I didnt want...playwright Caridad Svich. But after reading Iphigenia at Aulis for a workshop, Svich changed...Euripides as a writer," she avows. "His Iphigenia didnt have a voice." ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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Iphigenia with Snacks
Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 27, April 2010
Subjects: Rescue Me: A Postmodern Classic with Snacks (Play)--Theater reviews, Theater--Theater reviews
Iphigenia with Snacks. by Randy Gener THE SCRIPT...audiences at a pivotal point--soon after Iphigenia learns from Pylades that her brother...the Greeks would have them be. Baralls Iphigenia is indeed a smart cookie, but she sadly...
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Faded Virtues
Magazine article by Brooke Allen; New Criterion, Vol. 26, November 2007
Subjects: Dividing the Estate (Play)--Theater reviews, Iphigenia 2.0 (Play)--Theater reviews, Theater--Theater reviews
...of Aeschyluss Agamemnon and Euripidess Iphigenia at Aulis, The Trojan Women, and Orestes...the particular Mycenean events. Mees Iphigenia 2.0 is appearing this season at the...such thing as an original play." In Iphigenia 2.0 the modernization process has been...
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San Jose, Calif.: Shock and Awe Revisited
Magazine article by Karen D'Souza; American Theatre, Vol. 23, May-June 2006
Subjects: Iphigenia (Play)--Theater reviews, Theater--Theater reviews
...sleep at night on a bed of oil barrels. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Iphigenia at Aulis meets American foreign policy in San Jose Repertory...public face on a war thats really about greed." In this Iphigenia, Agamemnon emerges as the drunk-on-power leader of a...
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Still Dangerous after All These Years
Magazine article by Toby Zinman; American Theatre, Vol. 16, March 1999
Subjects: Electra (Drama)--Performances, Greek drama (Tragedy)--Performances, Hecuba (Drama)--Performances, Medea (Theater)--Performances, Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...womens tragedies: Hecuba, Electra, Iphigenia, Phaedra, Clytemnestra, Medea, the...touted Chicago production of Euripides Iphigenia cycle, which she will follow with a...director who took on the rarely performed Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris, which...
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Heart of the Horror; THEATRE
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 23, 2004
...THEATRE. Byline: NICHOLAS DE JONGH Iphigenia At Aulis Nationals Lyttelton PERHAPS...Mitchells horrifying production of Euripidess Iphigenia at Aulis reminds us, when it comes to...matchless. The particular fascination of Iphigenia has to do with its treatment of human...
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War of the Words; Review
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 27, 2004
...Words; Review. Byline: GEORGINA BROWN Iphigenia At Aulis Lyttelton, National Theatre...with a new version of Euripides tragedy Iphigenia At Aulis. Agamemnon (Ben Daniels...agrees to sacrifice his eldest daughter, Iphigenia (Hattie Morahan), to the goddess Artemis...
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* Steppenwolf Theatre's Annual Garage Rep Begins Previews on Friday, Feb. 11, At
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 11, 2011
Subjects: Theater companies
...performances of the Chicago premiere of "Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That...and video is inspired by Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" (in which Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia so that his troops may depart for Troy...
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Beware Greeks from the Gutter
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 25, 2004
...doesnt target its subject directly. Iphigenia was the daughter of the ancient Greek...Clytemnestra and her doomed daughter Iphigenia. As Clytemnestra, Kate Duchene is a...the plays moral apex is Hattie Morahans Iphigenia. She is a bright, inquisitive young...
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Shock, Horror and a Twist
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 23, 2004
...Clytemnestra and her doomed daughter Iphigenia. Kate DuchIne is a proud society lady...But it all hinges on Hattie Morahans Iphigenia who begins by pleading with her father...sing All Things Bright And Beautiful as Iphigenia is taken out to have her throat cut...
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encyclopedia articles on: Iphigenia  - 9 results

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Iphigenia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
IPHIGENIA if j ni , in Greek legend, daughter of Clytemnestra...Artemis demanded the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia. Agamemnon reluctantly agreed, and, despite Clytemnestras protestations, Iphigenia nobly consented to die for the glory of Greece...
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Agamemnon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Pelops . Agamemnon married Clytemnestra, and their children were Iphigenia, Electra, and Orestes. To win favorable winds for the ships sailing against Troy, he sacrificed Iphigenia to Artemis and thus incurred the hatred of Clytemnestra. After...
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Orestes , in Greek Mythology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon and brother of Electra and Iphigenia. After the slaying of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus...image of Artemis from Tauris. At Tauris he was reunited with Iphigenia and with her assistance stole the image and safely returned...
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Clytemnestra
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...She was the mother by Agamemnon of Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia. She conspired with Aegisthus to murder Agamemnon on his...giving various justifications, most notably the sacrifice of Iphigenia by Agamemnon at the onset of the war. Orestes, who had been...
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Euripides
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...an indictment of war; Helena (412); Ion (c.412); Iphigenia in Tauris (date uncertain); the Phoenician Women (c...the story of the Seven against Thebes ; Orestes (408); Iphigenia in Aulis and the Bacchae, on the Pentheus story, both posthumously...
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