Name: Iphigenia
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Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von ; Oakes, Meredith
ISBN: 9781849431644

Type

Physical Book

Author

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Adapted by

Meredith Oakes

Publisher

Oberon Books

Language

Inglés

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 0.5 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN

1849431647

ISBN13

9781849431644

Synopsis "Iphigenia"

The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his knife to slit the child's throat, the goddess Diana spirits her away. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, believing her beloved daughter to be dead, slays her husband in revenge on hisreturn from the Trojan wars. Their son, Orestes, avenges his father's death by killing his mother. Now, years later, as Iphigenia, a prisoner of the temple of Diana, looks across the sea to Greece, longing to return home, her brother Orestes arrives...

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Poeta, novelista, dramaturgo, científico y político alemán. En la Universidad de Estrasburgo conoció a Herder, quien lo introdujo a las obras de Shakespeare y a quien ayudó después a crear el movimiento romántico alemán Sturm und Drang. En 1775 Carlos Augusto, heredero del ducado de Sajonia-Weimar, invitó a Goethe a vivir y trabajar en Weimar, que entonces era uno de los centros intelectuales y literarios de Alemania. Allí desarrolló una brillante carrera política que finalmente abandonó para dedicarse a viajar y a escribir. Es uno de mayores exponentes literarios del Romanticismo y para muchos el escritor más importante que han dado las letras alemanas.

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