ADVENTURES WITH IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS. A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy.

First edition. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers, a black and white frontispiece and 87 black and white illustrations throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, with a little rubbing to the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is creased at the edges and otherwise without fading, loss or tears.

A sweeping historical account of the Euripidean play 'Iphigenia in Tauris' (c. 414 - 412 BC), spanning its initial reception in antiquity, impact on Greek and Roman art, and surveying the Christian responses of John Milton and Catherine the Great, and the play's enduring geographical and cultural legacy. The author deftly introduces the reader to the text's influence upon modern popular culture, and devotes individual chapters to examining the most famous adaptations of the play, Gluck's opera 'Iphigénie en Tauride' and Goethe's drama 'Iphigenie auf Tauris'. With all texts translated into English, this is a highly accessible, all-encompassing history of one of the most influential of Greek tragedies. This volume forms part of the Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture.