This is the first major commentary onEuropides' Iphigenia in Tauris to appear in English in more than 65 years and does full justice to an undeservedly neglected tragedy. It sheds light on Euripides’
The past pervades Greek tragedy, says Kyriakou (Greek, Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki, Greece), because with few exceptions the stories and characters were already ancient then and had been treated many
The volume throws fresh light on a major polarity in Euripidean drama, including its roots in the tradition and its reception in vase-painting and literature. Virtually all Euripidean characters are s
