Iphigenie auf Tauris
First published 1787 · English · 115 pages
- Drama
- Myth and legend
Iphigenie auf Tauris is a verse play based on Greek myth. Iphigenia serves as a priestess in a distant land of the Taurians, far from her home and family. The local king wishes to marry her, and strangers arrive who bring her past back to her. Goethe turns the old story into a drama of conscience, honesty and humane feeling, in which reason and trust, rather than force, are the means of settling conflict. It is a leading work of German classicism.