Personal, paternal, patriotic: the threefold sacrifice of Iphigenia in Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis
In the <em>IA, </em>Iphigenia accepts to be sacrificed. This voluntary sacrifice can be interpreted as a result of her threefold motivation: personal, love for life; paternal, love for her father Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army which is about to sail to Troy; and patriotic, love...
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Language: | Portuguese |
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Coimbra University Press
2016-12-01
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Series: | Humanitas |
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Online Access: | http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/index.php/humanitas/article/view/2908 |