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Iphigenia in Aulis

American  
[aw-lis] / ˈɔ lɪs /

noun

  1. a tragedy (408? b.c.) by Euripides.

  2. an opera (1774) by Christoph Willibald von Gluck.


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The Greek tragedians rebuilt Troy and the places connected with it in such plays as Hecuba and Iphigenia in Aulis and Agamemnon.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2019

For a brilliant plot template, I looked at Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, which is the same story – a young girl commits to an heroic act, against the wishes of her parents.

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2012

Iphigenia in Aulis, presented last week at Manhattan's Circle in the Square in a translation by Minos Volanakis, shows men and women undoing themselves through ambition, power, lust, fear, guile and egocentric arrogance.

From Time Magazine Archive

She makes her case in Les Atrides, a nine-hour cycle of four productions embracing Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides and the Oresteia trilogy of !

From Time Magazine Archive

Walter Damrosch's incidental music to the Greek play "Iphigenia in Aulis" produced at the Greek Theatre, Berkeley, Cal.

From Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Lahee, Henry Charles

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