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Iphigenia in Tauris (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις Iphigeneia en Taurois) is a drama by the playwright Euripides written between 414 BC and 412 BC. It has much in common with another of Euripides’s plays Helen as well as the lost play Andromeda and is often described as a romance a melodrama a tragi-comedy or an escape play.

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author
Euripides
character in play
Athena, Orestes, Pylades, Iphigeneia, King Thoas, herdsman, servant
chorus character in play
Greek Slave Women
genre
Tragedy
original language
Ancient Greek
premiere place
Classical Athens
setting of play
Tauris a region of Scythia in the northern Black Sea

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