AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

Comparison of the Iphigenias, Euripides, Racine and Goethe

by Charles Munroe Strong




Institution: University of Missouri – Columbia
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Year: 1900
Record ID: 1571323
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/10355/15319


Abstract

The legend of Iphigenias is one of the most touching of its kind and its theme has been a favorite with dramatists at various times. The story of the young girl, so gentle and forbearing, so modest and submissive to her father's will furnishes, indeed, sufficient material for idealization and has proven a fruitful field from which authors of different ages have successfully gleaned.