Iphigenia in Aulis
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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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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
But even he, when he comes to the impassioned or pathetic scenes, as in the Medea, the Iphigenia in Aulis, and Hecuba, is as brief and energetic in his expression as Shakspeare himself.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
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