Iphigenia in Tauris
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Iphigenia in Tauris is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BC. It has much in common with another of Euripides's plays, Helen, as well as the lost play Andromeda, and i
Iphigenie (1871) by Anselm Feuerbach
Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before Iphigenia (1766) by Benjamin West
Iphigenia's escape from Tauris. Ancient Roman relief, end of a marble sarchophagus. Middle of the 2nd century A.D.
Iphigenia in Tauride, decoration in Pompeii
Iphigenia in Aulis
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Iphigenia in Aulis or Iphigenia at Aulis is the last of the extant works by the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first p
Iphigenia in Tauris
…time period covered by the play, the young princess Iphigenia narrowly avoided death by sacrifice at the hands of her father, Agamemnon. (See plot of Iphigenia at Aulis.) At the last moment the goddess Artemis, to whom the sacrifice was to be made, intervened and replaced Iphigenia on the altar with a deer, saving the…
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The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia (1653) by Sébastien Bourdon
Akhilleus Patroklos Antikensammlung Berlin F2278