Spared from sacrifice at Aulis and carried to the shores of the Black Sea, Iphigenia serves as priestess of Diana for King Thoas, longing every day for Greece. When two strangers are captured for sacrifice and one proves to be her brother Orestes, pursued by the Furies, she must choose between a lie that might save them and the truth.
Goethe’s verse drama of humane ideals, in Anna Swanwick’s translation, a cornerstone of German classicism. Download the free EPUB.