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Original Title:	Ιφιγένεια η εν Αυλίδι
ISBN:	1566631114 (ISBN13: 9781566631112)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Menelaus, Achilles (Greek hero), Iphigeneia, princess of Argos, Clytemnestra (wife of Agamemnon), Agamemnon

Iphigenia in Aulis Paperback | Pages: 69 pages

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Title	:	Iphigenia in Aulis
Author	:	Euripides
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 69 pages
Published	:	September 25th 1997 by Ivan R. Dee Publisher (first published -405)
Categories	:	Plays. Classics. Drama. Fantasy. Mythology. Theatre. Fiction. Literature. Ancient

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It made me cry.

It upset me.

A play by Euripides from 500 B.C.E. or so.

This reader has read Greek tragedies before but for some reason, this one ambushed.

We are so messed up. We are so fragile. Trauma is never far away. Tragedy can enter through any window or door or vent at any time.

Yes, it was a bit melodramatic. Yes, it may not have been completed by the man himself, his last work.

It’s about a father, a mother, a daughter, a son, a brother.

It’s about war and power. Always war and power. Why?

It’s about family dysfunction. Blood does not create love.

Often, we navigate a shared animus with the people we have lived with during the first phase of our lives. We do not always play nice.

It’s about each one of us.

It’s about the expectations we allow ourselves that do not materialize.

It’s about surrender.

It’s about personal needs and how it may conflict with the desires of others.

It’s about the desires of others and how we misinterpret it because they are not us.

We are not them.

A need to inspect and magnify our immanence. Continuously.

Humans break often.

And we attempt to repair.

But we cannot undo, unsee what we have experienced.

We carry our sufferings under our masks so as not to show vulnerability, distress, hurt, sadness to others.

Others who carry a similar load.

Why?

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My favorite from Euripides. This is his anti-war play: the virginal Iphigeneia is to be sacrificed for the sake of the Greeks on their way to war with Troy, and the Greeks all have their say about how awful it is before the sacrifice happens. The ending of the play is lost, but later playwrights imagine Iphigeneia saved by Artemis, "dead and brought to life again" and "in heaven with the gods," which sounds a lot like like someone named Jesus Christ.

This play premiered in Athens in 405BC and is about an incident that took place at Aulis before the the armies of Hellas could set sail for the Trojan War.This isn't a tragedy as we would normally think of them, as in Shakespeare's tragedies where bodies litter the stage by the final scene but it is a tragedy nonetheless despite the apparent 'happy' ending. I've heard it argued that this is a tragedy in the way Aristotle defined them, where someone has to make a choice, a difficult &

Agamemnon: I'm so sad.Old Man: Yo, what's up?Agamemnon: Helen, that hot chick from Troy, picked my brother Menelaus to marry. But Paris stole her. Now we gots to get her back, but some prophet said that we can't leave to do that until I kill my daughter Iphigenia!Old Man: Uh... okay.Agamemnon: Take this letter to my wife. I sent her one already that lied and said that I was marrying Iphigenia to the hot dude Achilles, but this one says it was all a lie and not to come here. I don't want to kill

This play (and the story of Iphigenia in general) is frustrating on a number of levels, and this version couldn't redeem it for me, but Clytemnestra's monologue rebuking Agamemnon is one of the best things I've read in Greek tragedy. In fact, this is probably my favorite incarnation of Clytemnestra so far. Spending so long with the Oresteia and other plays that focus on the supposed justice of her murder by Orestes, I felt like I'd waited years to hear her take Agamemnon to task for Iphigenia.

4.5 starsYou could call this play Agamemnon vs Achilles: OriginsThis play sets up so many relations for the stories that were written before it, I really liked it!

This is opera material.

One Final Play29 August 2018 Sydney Well, as it turns out, this was Euripides last play, the reason being that he died before he could finish it. This is sort of a bit of a turn of events where Greek plays are concerned because most of the time the reason we dont have the plays is because they have been lost (you can probably blame Julius Caeser for that, among other people, but then again the Great Library did seem to be a bit of a fire magnet). However, just because he didnt finish it doesnt