“Beneath your waving shade, ye restless boughs of this long-hallow'd venerable wood, as in the silent sanctuary's gloom, I wander still with the same chilly awe as when I enter'd first: in vain my soul attempts to feel itself no stranger to you.”
""Iphigenia in Tauris"" is a play written by the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It tells the story of Iphigenia, the daughter of the Greek king Agamemnon, who was sent to Tauris as a sacrifice to the goddess Artemis. In Tauris, Iphigenia serves as a priestess in the temple of Artemis, where she is tasked with performing human sacrifices. However, when her brother Orestes and his friend Pylades arrive in Tauris, Iphigenia is faced with a difficult decision: to fulfill her duty and sacrifice her own brother, or to help him escape and risk angering the goddess. The play explores themes of family, duty, and morality, and is considered one of Goethe's most important works. 1794. The German poet, dramatist, novelist, translator, scientist and musician, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a master of world literature, the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister and Faust. Goethe has rewritten Euripides's Iphigenia in Tauris into a rather amazing celebration of how one pure woman could heal the insanity and evils of the pagan past, symbolized by the dysfunctional House of Atreus as well as by King Thoas, whose notion of hospitality was to sacrifice passing strangers to his god. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
