Iphigenia In Aulis Euripides 9781449552527 Books
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Iphigenia In Aulis Euripides 9781449552527 Books Reviews
When you think of Greek tragedy and Euripides what immediately springs to mind? A desperately dry philosophical volume? Believe me, that is not the case with Ipheginia at Aulis. This beautifully crafted volume tells of the conflict between political and familial responsibility with a smattering of divine intervention. The beautiful Helen has be kidnapped by Paris and taken back to Troy. Helen's husband, Menalaus,brother to King Agamemnon of Mycenae persuades his brother to send the largest ever Greek fleet to take the land of Troy and retieve Helen. As the fleet is ready to sail from Aulis, the winds die and they are stranded. Unless, as the evil and manipulative prophet Calchas says, a sacrafice of a certain sixteen year old virgin princess is made then they will be permenantly beached. Here follow many twists and turns and a ride through the Ancient Greek mythical world with the fate of a whole nation at stake. How will Agamemnon fight his conscience and persuade his wife Clytemnestra to bring his beloved daughter to meet her death? To what depths will he stoop to to follow the quest for glory? Whatever the outcome, this is a beautiful play which lends itself to performance at any level- sure to bring any audience to their feet!
"Iphigenia in Aulis" was the last play written by Euripides and represents his most cynical depiction of the great heroes of Greek mythology. The subject of the play is the sacrifice of Iphigenia, ordered by her father King Agamemnon, to appease the goddess Artemis, so that the Achaen fleet can have fair winds to sail to Troy and bring back Helen. Of course is will be ten long years before Agamemnon returns, to be murdered in his royal home by his wife Clytemnestra, who spent those long years of separation waiting for the day she could avenge her daughter's death.
I have used "Iphigenia in Aulis" as part of large unit on the Trojan War right before proceeding on to Homer's epic poem the "Iliad." Not only does the play come at that point in terms of the chronology of the war, but it clearly foreshadows the initial confrontation in the "Iliad" between Agamemnon and Achilles over Briseis of the lovely arms. To get his daughter to come to Aulis and be executed, Agamemnon says she is to marry Achilles. This lie not only makes Achilles angry when he learns about it, but the prospect of her daughter's marriage brings Clytemnestra to Aulis as well and foreshadows the tragedy "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus, the first part of the famed Orestia, as well.
But it is the contrast with Homer's epic that is most manifest here. Euripides invests the beginning of Homer's saga with painful irony as Agamemnon rejects the pleas of Briseis's father; after all, has the Achean leader really forgotten the pain of sacrificing his daughter ten years earlier? In Euripides's play it becomes clear that Agamemnon does not care for his daughter; she is but a bargaining chip in his ploy for power. As her father and ruler Agamemnon could simply order his daughter to come to Aulis, but instead he concocts a fake marriage to Achilles, the most eligible of the young Achean heroes. When Achilles finds out he has been a pawn in this deadly little game he is incensed and promises to safe the maiden, but in the end he turns out to be as foolish and as wicked as the rest of the characters. All of the sympathy goes towards Iphigenia, the only true hero in the drama since she alone acts selflessly. For the greater glory of the Achean host she will accept her fate and thus be fondly remembered.
Any one teaching the "Iliad" should at least provide the gist of "Iphigenia at Aulis" as background material, along with the story of the judgment of Paris. The same would apply to the study of either the entire "Orestia" or just the first play in the trilogy, "Agamemnon." As for the "true" fate of Iphigenia as realized by Euripides in "Iphigenia at Taurus," which is certainly the least tragic of his tragedies, that can be briefly mentioned as well to bring the whole grand tale to a happy ending of sorts.
The version is NOT the W S Merwin translation, even though 's description claims that it is. Don't buy this version, which is a clunky stilted translation which will put you off reading the Greek plays. Go ahead and get a used copy of the WS Merwin translation, which is entitled "Iphigeneia at Aulis".
Readable translation, unnecessary UI issues. For example In-line text notes should link but do not. Even the freeware Greek tragedies have that feature enabled; certainly a paid version should as well.
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