Euripides: Iphigenia in Aulis

Writing during the slow catastrophe of the Peloponnesian War, Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis is a reflection on what to do when you have no choice.

Agamemnon, committed to helping his brother Menelaus recover his lost wife, Helen, and having coerced the Achaeans to go to war against Troy for the house of Atreus, now cannot leave the shore—the winds have failed, the army is restless, the only way forward, an augur reveals, is to sacrifice his daughter.

Join us for a tragedy, filled with deceit, filicide, and betrayal.

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