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Excerpt from Euripides Iphigenia Among the Taurians
Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians is certainly one of the poet's later works, although the year of its representa [phigenia tion is unknown. A quotation in the Frogs of Aristo Taurica and phones1 shows that it preceded the Jphigenia at Aulis, 117252253. Which was first brought out after the author's death by his son, the younger Euripides. The earlier play is thus the dram atization of a passage in the legendary history subsequent to that which forms the theme of the later play. This order of composi tion might be inferred from the treatment of the subject in the two dramas severally considered. To make the heroine resign herself as a voluntary sacrifice for Hellas, as is done in the scene at Aulis, was an afterthought oi' Euripides. Had this idea been already presented to the public, the poet would hardly have reverted to the traditional conception of the event, which is preserved in the Tauric play age 1am] to the goddess who has Spirited her away out of the hands of her Slayers, deplores, with grave reproach upon her father's name, the cruel destiny that reared her as a victim to the sacrificial knife.
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