This September, the Getty Museum and Chicago-based Court Theatre present Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis, the twelfth annual outdoor theatrical production in the Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater ...

Ancient Greek dramatist Euripides’ play “Iphigenia in Aulis” could seem remote. What have we in common with a father who sacrifices his daughter to the gods in exchange for better weather that will ...

The opera's libretto is based on a play by Racine, which in turn comes from the ancient Greek story of Iphigenia, the young woman whose father, King Agamemnon, was ordered to sacrifice her to earn ...

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Would you kill your own daughter as a sacrifice to the gods? Of course not. Civilization has evolved from the fifth century before Christ — an Athenian era when those famous experiments in democracy ...

Euripides has a God problem, too. His plays are about the gravest failings of humans but the humans are constantly being manipulated by immortals. The story of Iphigenia in Aulis, his final work, from ...

Iphigenia at Aulis These are jittery times for the Greeks in Katie Mitchell's tremendous production of "Iphigenia at Aulis," which cracks open classical tragedy in much the same way that her wondrous ...