Iphigenia in Taurus Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 165 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Iphigenia in Taurus Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 165 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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• Two long-lost children of the slaughtered King Agamemnon are reunited and plot to escape their earthly imprisonment and servitude to the gods.

• The play is set in the courtyard of a temple sacred to the goddess Artemis.

• Iphigenia explains in a long speech who she is, how she came to Taurus, the way she because a priestess, and her role in the rituals of the temple.

• Iphigenia explains that she is the daughter of Agamemnon and that she was betrothed to Achilles.

• Iphigenia reveals that her father was commanded by the gods to sacrifice her to Artemis so her father's army could sail to another country to rescue Helen of Troy.

• At the moment that Iphigenia was to be killed, Artemis replaces her with a deer, brings her to Taurus and sets her up as the high priestess of the temple.

• It is Iphigenia's duty to prepare...

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