{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0006.tlg013.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg013.local001","title":"Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις","titleGreek":"Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Euripides","authorityName":"EURIPIDES Trag.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0006-euripides/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0006-euripides/","editors":["Gilbert Murray"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Euripidis Fabulae","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1913","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/euripidisfabu02euri/page/n297","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Euripides. Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις. ed. Gilbert Murray. Euripidis Fabulae, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1913. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg013.local001","excerpt":"Ἰφιγένεια Πέλοψ ὁ Ταντάλειος ἐς Πῖσαν μολὼν θοαῖσιν ἵπποις Οἰνομάου γαμεῖ κόρην, ἐξ ἧς Ἀτρεὺς ἔβλαστεν· Ἀτρέως δὲ παῖς Μενέλαος Ἀγαμέμνων τε· τοῦ δʼ ἔφυν ἐγώ τῆς Τυνδαρείας θυγατρὸς Ἰφιγένεια παῖς, ἣν ἀμφὶ δίναις ἃς θάμʼ Εὔριπος πυκναῖς αὔραις ἑλίσσων κυανέαν ἅλα στρέφει, ἔσφαξεν Ἑλένης οὕνεχʼ, ὡς δοκεῖ, πατὴρ Ἀρτέμιδι κλειναῖς ἐν πτυχαῖσιν Αὐλίδος. ἐνταῦθα γὰρ δὴ χιλίων ναῶν στόλον Ἑλληνικὸν συνήγαγʼ Ἀγαμέμνων ἄναξ, τὸν καλλίνικον στέφανον Ἰλίου θέλων λαβεῖν Ἀχαιοῖς τούς θʼ ὑβρισθέντας γάμους Ἑλένης μετελθεῖν, Μενέλεῳ χάριν φέρων. δεινῆς δʼ ἀπλοίας πνευμάτων τε τυγχάνων, ἐς ἔμπυρʼ ἦλθε, καὶ λέγει Κάλχας τάδε· ὦ τῆσδʼ ἀνάσσων Ἑλλάδος στρατηγίας, Ἀγάμεμνον, οὐ μὴ ναῦς ἀφορμίσῃ χθονός, πρὶν ἂν κόρην σὴν Ἰφιγένειαν Ἄρτεμις λάβῃ σφαγεῖσαν· ὅ τι γὰρ ἐνιαυτὸς τέκοι κάλλιστον, ηὔξω φωσφόρῳ θύσειν θεᾷ. παῖδʼ οὖν ἐν οἴκοις σὴ Κλυταιμήστρα δάμαρ τίκτει — τὸ καλλιστεῖον εἰς ἔμʼ ἀναφέρων — ἣν χρή…","divisions":[{"label":"Episode 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/#tlg0006-tlg013-local001-1"},{"label":"Choral 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/#tlg0006-tlg013-local001-2"},{"label":"Episode 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/#tlg0006-tlg013-local001-3"},{"label":"Choral 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/#tlg0006-tlg013-local001-4"},{"label":"Episode 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/#tlg0006-tlg013-local001-5"},{"label":"Choral 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/#tlg0006-tlg013-local001-6"},{"label":"Episode 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/#tlg0006-tlg013-local001-7"},{"label":"Choral 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/#tlg0006-tlg013-local001-8"},{"label":"Episode 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/#tlg0006-tlg013-local001-9"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0006.tlg013.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006/tlg013/local001.json.gz"}}