Having focused on the humanist context and performability of
Iphigeneia, Straznicky moves on to explore the idea of private and public readerships for Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam.
No fifth-century Greek could sit in the audience and hear that line and not be reminded of the other occasion on which the winds refused to blow for Agamemnon--the story made famous by Aischylos of how Agamemnon came to sacrifice
Iphigeneia at the beginning of the Trojan War.
(That of
Iphigeneia is perhaps the best known.) This could have been connected to the "spotless" sacrificial offering reported in the Hebrew Scriptures as offering the hope of salvation (126).
They were given the form of serpents when broughttothe stage by Euripides in the
Iphigeneia in Tauris: "Dost see her, her the Hades-snake who gapes / To slay me, with dread vipers, open-mouthed?"
Colin had already adapted two plays by the classical Greek writer Euripides,
Iphigeneia At Aulis and The Bacchai, before embarking on his latest venture.
The play is based on an ancient fragment of text from a missing play by Euripides, which, together with
Iphigeneia at Aulis and The Bacchai, completes the trilogy.
A retelling of the story of the sacrifice of
Iphigeneia, King Agamemnon's daughter.
She remains, however, rather put out that Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter
Iphigeneia in order to appease the angry goddess Artemis.
Maria has called the stunning creation
Iphigeneia (Budding Beauty) and the school hopes it will scoop the EUR3,000 prize money at the Form and Fusion Design Awards at the Green Glens Arena, Millstreet, Co Cork, on Saturday, May 17.
He has been condemned as being a deceiver (Philoctetes), as a man of low morals (
Iphigeneia in Aulis), and along with Homer in general as betrayer of reality (Plato); the Romans usually preferred Troy and the Trojans.