The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of heroic legend, the tragic diction and meters, and the tragic actors would have defined it as pure tra...

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1. Verfasser:	Euripides
Weitere Verfasser:	Lattimore, Richmond, 1906-1984
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English Ancient Greek
Veröffentlicht:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Schriftenreihe:	Greek tragedy in new translations.
Schlagworte:	Iphigenia > (Mythological character) > Drama. Iphigenia > (Mythological character) Drama > Translations into English. DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval. Drama Litteratur > Klassiske litteraturer. Translations Tragedies.
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of heroic legend, the tragic diction and meters, and the tragic actors would have defined it as pure tragedy, the happy ending notwithstanding. While not one of his "deep" dramatic works, the play is Euripidean in many respects, above all in its recurrent theme of escape, symbolized in the rescue of Iphigeneia by Artemis, to whom she was about to be sacrificed.Richmond Lattimore--who has been called the dean of American translators--has translated Iphigeneia in Tauris with skill and subtlety, revealing it as one of the most delicately written and beautifully contrived of the Euripidean "romances."
Beschreibung:	Originally published in 1973.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 88 pages)
ISBN:	1423734513 9781423734512 160256616X 9781602566163 9780195072914 019507291X 9786610441396 6610441391 9780199728558 0199728550 1280441399 9781280441394