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The Athenian Euripides was born on the day of the Battle of Salamis (September 15, 480 BC). He is the philosopher from the stage, a genuine child of the environment of the Ionian philosopher Anaxagoras and the leader of the Athenian Democracy, Pericles. He wrote 92 tragedies, of which only 18 are preserved.
“Iphigenia in Tauris” was performed between 415 and 413 BC, at a time when moral values had completely degenerated. The Athenian man feels utterly alone, and this loneliness is reflected by the poet.
The Peloponnesian War, the blatant intervention of the Persians in the internal affairs of the Greeks, the informers, mob rule, the lack of trust—signs of the times—raise walls around man and continuously isolate him. Poetry is the only thing left to him. And poets sing and die...
Euripides is a poet who, through his work, tries to express the suffering human, the Great Sufferer... In “Iphigenia in Tauris,” he attempts to portray the shattered family, brotherly, friendly, and social bonds, and presents the problem of freedom.
(...) [Excerpt from the prologue text]
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