Iphigenia in Tauris

Acts

• Prologue

  Iphigenia serves as priestess among the Taurians. She must sacrifice any Greek stranger who arrives.

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• Parodos

  The chorus of captive Greek women laments their exile.

  105 lines
• First Episode

  Two young Greeks are captured — one seized by fits of madness. It is Orestes and Pylades.

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• First Stasimon

  The chorus imagines the strangers' homes in Greece.

  62 lines
• Second Episode

  Iphigenia interrogates the prisoners without recognising her brother. She offers to spare one if he carries a letter.

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• Second Stasimon

  The chorus reflects on the cursed house of Atreus.

  62 lines
• Third Episode

  The letter is read and recognition occurs. They devise an escape plan involving the sea.

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• The Escape

  Iphigenia carries the statue to the shore. They board a Greek ship, but the wind blows them back.

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• Exodos

  Athena orders the Taurian king to let them go. Iphigenia will serve Artemis in Greece at last.

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