Iphigeneia in Aulis and Three Other Plays: Iphigeneia in Tauris, Elektra, and Hekabe: 2

The plays in this volume are entirely about women and the dismal lives men had forced them to live. Iphigeneia is brought to Artemis’ sacrificial altar at Aulis because of a hubris committed by her father in Iphigeneia in Aulis as the revenge-aroused Greeks prepare to sail for Troy. In Iphigeneia in Tauris , she is saved by Artemis the very last second before her throat is cut – only to be brought to Tauris, where she herself will serve as a priestess of human sacrifices in Artemis’ temple. Elektra is the only victim of another woman – her own mother, Klytaemestra – who had killed Agamemnon, her father. So, she now waits for her younger brother, Orestes, to arrive and revenge this murder. Hekabe — the queen of a once mighty city, Troy, and the wife of a once mighty man, King Priam — is now but a wretched, pitiful figure, thanks to the hordes of Achaian men driven there by a lust for glory. Her daughter Polyxene has been sacrificed at the altar of the dead Achilles and her youngest son was killed by someone who was supposed to have been a trusted friend. —- ISBN: 9798696570952