Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Iphigenia

Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 96 Seiten

ISBN 1849431647

EAN 9781849431644

Veröffentlicht Februar 2012

Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic

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Beschreibung

The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his knife to slit the child's throat, the goddess Diana spirits her away. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, believing her beloved daughter to be dead, slays her husband in revenge on hisreturn from the Trojan wars. Their son, Orestes, avenges his father's death by killing his mother. Now, years later, as Iphigenia, a prisoner of the temple of Diana, looks across the sea to Greece, longing to return home, her brother Orestes arrives...