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Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy

The first four criteria apply to this two-part volume, which explains the impact of a Euripidean tragedy both in antiquity and subsequently. Research into substantial evidence of diverse types - inscriptions, frescoes, vase-paintings, sarcophagi, papyri, coins, as well as sundry ancient and post-Renaissance media and genres - has generated twin hypotheses illuminating the play’s popularity in antiquity and in the 17th-19th centuries. The project required visiting Greek, Turkish and Black Sea archaeological sites (funded by the British Academy) and global theatre archives in Australia and elsewhere, plus correspondence from before 1989 with scholars in the former Soviet Union.