The complete online text of The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Euripides.

Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are notable for containing both tragic pathos and the nimb...

Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen, in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are notable for containing both tragic pathos and the nim...

Euripides (480-406 BC) was a Greek playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the Greek poets. He is certainly the most revolutionary Greek tragedian known in modern times. Euripides was the son of Mnesarchus. The family owned property on the is...

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Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Iphigenia In Tauris Background: Like three other plays by Euripides, Alcestis, Ion, and Helen, Iphigenia in Tauris is a tragi-comedy. The action is melodramatic, depending on romantic and sensational incidents, rather than character and development of serious subject matter. For this...