Iphigenia in Aulis
Americannoun
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a tragedy (408? b.c.) by Euripides.
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an opera (1774) by Christoph Willibald von Gluck.
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Ms. Papas appeared on the New York stage in roles that included “Iphigenia in Aulis” in 1968 and “Medea” in 1973.
From Washington Post
The following year, she was Clytemnestra in a Circle in the Square production of “Iphigenia in Aulis.”
From New York Times
Social critics have long turned to Euripides’s plays, especially “Iphigenia in Aulis,” “Iphigenia in Tauris” and “Medea,” which also features a woman tangled up in the whims of the gods.
From New York Times
In “Iphigenia in Aulis,” the last great work by the Athenian playwright Euripides, she volunteers to be sacrificed in order to help her countrymen wage war, but she’s mysteriously saved by the goddess Artemis.
From New York Times
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
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