Project Gutenberg 2005-05-18 Public domain in the USA. 499 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749 1832 Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, J. W. (Johann Wolfgang) Goethe, Juan Wolfgango Swanwick, Anna 1813 1899 Iphigenia in Tauris Reading ease score: 80.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by David Starner, Peter Barozzi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "Iphigenia in Tauris" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a dramatic play written in the late 18th century. The story revolves around the central character, Iphigenia, who is the daughter of Agamemnon and a priestess of Artemis, trapped in Tauris as she longs for her homeland, Greece. Through themes of sacrifice, identity, and the struggles between personal desires and divine will, the play explores the human condition and the power of fate. At the start of the narrative, Iphigenia reflects on her tragic predicament in a sacred grove dedicated to the goddess Diana. She expresses her longing for her family and struggles with her role as a priestess, feeling trapped by the duties that conflict with her wish to return home. As she engages with Arkas, a servant of the king Thoas, it becomes clear that the lives of two Greek strangers, Orestes (her brother) and Pylades, are under threat, and she is torn between her obligations to the king and her desire to protect them. The opening establishes a tension between personal loyalty and state duty, setting the stage for the unfolding drama filled with emotional conflict and existential dilemmas. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Iphigenia (Mythological character) -- Drama PT Text Contemporary Reviews Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction 193472 193473 2024-10-07T07:35:55.005270 2023-09-07T08:47:53.441467 text/html text/html 196243 2020-12-14T12:05:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 55620 2020-12-14T12:05:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 136936 2024-10-07T07:36:06.148205 application/epub+zip 138116 2024-10-07T07:35:59.300261 application/epub+zip 124500 2024-10-07T07:35:57.503241 application/epub+zip 284023 2024-10-07T07:36:09.727172 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 375862 2024-10-07T07:36:04.516256 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 350011 2022-09-08T00:01:26.302602 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 139846 2024-10-07T07:35:53.388281 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 139654 2020-12-14T12:05:20 text/plain; charset=utf-8 49672 2020-12-14T12:05:20 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 139640 2020-12-14T12:05:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 49641 2020-12-14T12:05:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 139643 2020-12-14T12:05:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 49621 2020-12-14T12:05:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 24080 2024-10-07T07:36:09.884169 application/rdf+xml 11454 2024-10-07T07:35:58.092244 image/jpeg 2841 2024-10-07T07:35:57.796249 image/jpeg 132308 2024-10-07T07:35:55.019269 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia de.wikipedia en.wikipedia