Iphigenia in Tauris
A Tragic Tale of Fate, Family, and Redemption in Ancient GreeceBy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Length1h 37m
About this audiobook
In "Iphigenia in Tauris," Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reinterprets the ancient Greek myth of Iphigenia, exploring themes of fate, sacrifice, and redemption through a neoclassical lens. The play, composed in blank verse, captures the emotional gravity and psychological complexity of its characters, particularly Iphigenia herself, who grapples with notions of duty and familial loyalty while yearning for freedom. Goethe's work reflects the Enlightenment'Äôs emphasis on reason and moral integrity, positioning the narrative within a rich literary context that bridges classical tradition and modern sensibilities. Goethe, a titan of German literature, drew inspiration from his profound engagement with classical texts and humanistic ideals. Having traveled extensively and familiarized himself with diverse cultural philosophies, he was able to convey the universal struggles of the human condition in "Iphigenia in Tauris." This play is a culmination of his artistic maturation, showcasing his mastery of language and form while reflecting the tensions between irrationality and reason, a defining feature of his oeuvre. For readers seeking a profound exploration of human emotion intertwined with classical themes, "Iphigenia in Tauris" is an indispensable work. It not only exemplifies Goethe's brilliance but also invites contemporary readers to ponder timeless questions of identity and moral duty, making it a compelling addition to any literary collection.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (9.8K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon
GenreLiterary Classics
Length1 hr 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 25, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Handy Literal Translations
2GOETHE'S
3Translated by
4ANNA SWANWICK
5PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.: IPHIGENIA. THOAS, King of the Taurians. ORESTES. PYLADES. ARKAS.
Show all chaptersShow less
6ACT THE FIRST.: SCENE I.
7ACT THE SECOND.
8ACT THE THIRD.
9ACT THE FOURTH.
10ACT THE FIFTH.: Others to follow
Die Meisterwerke der Weltliterature (Kommentiert)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, Selma Lagerlöf, Sigmund Freud, Johanna Spyri, Theodor Storm, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Dickens, Stefan Zweig, Heinrich Heine, Honoré de Balzac, Theodor Fontane, Karl May, Gottfried Keller, Mark Twain, Heinrich Mann, Else Lasker-Schüler, Robert Musil, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Arthur Schopenhauer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gustav Freytag, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Heinrich von Kleist, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Guy de Maupassant, Walter Scott, Jonathan Swift, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Alexandre Dumas, Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, O. Henry, Voltaire, Lew Wallace, John Galsworthy, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow, Platon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew, Tacitus, Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Mary Shelley, Thomas Wolfe, Emile Zola, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Leo Tolstoi, Joseph Roth, Joseph von Eichendorff, Kurt Tucholsky, Iwan Alexandrowitsch Gontscharow, Oswald Spengler, Moliere, Alfred Adler, Sophie von La Roche, Klaus Mann, Rumi1256h 15m$3 · $0.00
Die großen Liebes-Klassiker der WeltliteraturJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Victor Hugo, Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, Rudyard Kipling, George Sand, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Eugenie Marlitt, Leo Tolstoi, Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos261h 10m4.5 (13)$1 · $0.00
Harvard Classics Anthology - Complete 51 VolumesJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Carlyle, Plato, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, Joseph Addison, John Locke, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, John Ruskin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Renan, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Webster, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, James Russell Lowell, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Michael Faraday, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Aristophanes, Blaise Pascal, Virgil, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Simon Newcomb, William Penn, Walter Bigges, Philip Sidney, Herodotus, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Giuseppe Mazzini, Francis Pretty, George Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Benvenuto Cellini, Sydney Smith, Jean Froissart, William Henry Harrison, William Harvey, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Thomas Malory, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Archibald Geikie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Tacitus, William Roper, Hippocrates, Miguel de Cervantes, Thomas More, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Nichols, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pliny the Younger, Edgar Alan Poe, Saint Augustine, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Francis Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson986h 28m$1.99 · $0.00
Die größten Meister der deutschen LyrikJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern, Georg Herwegh, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Achim von Arnim, Theodor Fontane, Frank Wedekind, Wilhelm Hauff, lhelm Hauff, Karl May, Bettina von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Eduard Mörike, Joseph von Eichendorff, Gustav Freytag, Franz Werfel, Willibald Alexis, Leopold Schefer, Gottfried Keller, Wilhelm Busch, Theodor Storm, Hermann Löns, Peter Rosegger, Louise Otto, Erich Mühsam224h 48m$2 · $0.00
Harvard Classics (All 51 Volumes)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Carlyle, Plato, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, Joseph Addison, John Locke, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, John Ruskin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Renan, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Webster, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, James Russell Lowell, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Michael Faraday, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Aristophanes, Blaise Pascal, Virgil, Simon Newcomb, William Penn, Walter Bigges, Philip Sidney, Herodotus, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Giuseppe Mazzini, Francis Pretty, George Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Benvenuto Cellini, Sydney Smith, Jean Froissart, William Henry Harrison, William Harvey, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Thomas Malory, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Archibald Geikie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Tacitus, William Roper, Hippocrates, Miguel de Cervantes, Thomas More, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Nichols, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pliny the Younger, Edgar Alan Poe, Saint Augustine, Brinsley Sheridan, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Francis Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson987h 23m$1.99 · $0.00
Die wichtigsten Werke von Goethe (Kommentiert)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe420h 50m4.3 (12)$1 · $0.00
Harvard Classics - Complete Collection of the Greatest Works of World Literature (Annotated)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Carlyle, Plato, Charles Darwin, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, Joseph Addison, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, John Dryden, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, John Ruskin, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, John Milton, Aristophanes, Virgil, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Penn, Philip Sidney, Francis Bacon, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Sydney Smith, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Miguel de Cervantes, Friedrich von Schiller, Pliny the Younger, Saint Augustine1376h 45m4.5 (2.4K)$2 · $0.00
Iphigenie auf Tauris (Kommentiert)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe3h 41m4.0 (12.5K)$1 · $0.00
Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy (Annotated)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe17h 29m4.1 (27)$2 · $0.00
180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2) (Annotated)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Theodor Storm, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Honoré de Balzac, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rabindranath Tagore, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, John Buchan, Confucius, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Benito Pérez Galdós, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, William Dean Howells, Virginia Woolf, William Walker Atkinson, Kenneth Grahame, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Gaston Leroux, Ford Madox Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Kate Chopin, John Milton, Edgar Wallace, Laozi, James Joyce, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Kakuzo Okakura, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, L. M. Montgomery, W. Somerset Maugham, E. M. Forster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lewis Wallace, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, George Bernard Shaw, Cao Xueqin, Emile Zola, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, P. B. Shelley, Elizabeth von Arnim, Dante, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Émile Coué, George Weedon Grossmith, Willkie Collins, D.H. Lawrence, Machiavelli1195h 9m4.5 (12)$2 · $0.00
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Annotated)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe6h 22m4.1 (161)$2 · $0.00
The Complete Plays of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Annotated)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe37h 32m$2 · $0.00
Aus meinem Leben. Dichtung und Wahrheit (Kommentiert)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe33h 52m4.4 (11)$1.50 · $0.00
Christian Collection: Scripture, History, Theology, Spirituality and Fiction (Annotated)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Martin Luther, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Dante Alighieri, Henry Van Dyke, David Hume, James Allen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Andrew Murray, John Bunyan, Grace Livingston Hill, Thomas Paine, Voltaire, Lew Wallace, John Milton, Charles M. Sheldon, Ludwig Feuerbach, G. K. Chesterton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas à Kempis, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Spurgeon, Prentice Mulford, St. Teresa of Ávila, Saint Augustine, Florence Scovel Shinn, H. Emilie Cady, Gregory of Nyssa, Pope Gregory I, Athanasius of Alexandria, John of Damascus, Brother Lawrence, Arthur Pink1167h 4m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Poems (Annotated)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe18h 4m4.3 (190)$2 · $0.00
Goethe: Romane & Novellen (Kommentiert)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe83h 18m4.4 (20)$1 · $0.00
Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung, Lehrjahre & Wanderjahre (Kommentiert)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe56h 42m4.6 (12)$1.50 · $0.00
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship & Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (Annotated)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe42h 10m3.7 (54)$2 · $0.00
Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand (Kommentiert)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe5h 37m3.8 (5.3K)$1 · $0.00
Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Klassiker der Weltliteratur) (Kommentiert)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe6h 27m4.1 (173.7K)$1 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
These Precious DaysAnn Patchett11h 14m4.5 (45.2K)$29 · $0.00
Twelfth Night (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography (Annotated)William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee16h 38m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Henry V (The Play, Historical Background and Analysis of the Character in the Play)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt8h 40m4.6 (1.3K)$1 · $0.00
H. P. LOVECRAFT Ultimate Collection: Novellas, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft12h 28m4.6 (2.3K)$2 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 54m4.5 (10.6K)$2 · $0.00
TORAH - Bilingual Edition: English/Hebrew (Annotated)Max Margolis, JPS28h 26m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
Betty Crocker picture cooky bookBetty Crocker, Inc. General Mills2h 13m4.5 (6.5K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Tales of Beatrix PotterBeatrix Potter3h 36m4.5 (75K)$3 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
The North American IndianEdward S. Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge6h4.5 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Uncensored 13 Chapter Version + The Revised 20 Chapter Version (Annotated)Oscar Wilde16h 12m4.5 (2.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
Grimoire Of The Everyday WitchIsadora Lys / Virginia Santos5h 35m4.5 (3.9K)$9 · $0.00
Winnie-the-PoohAlan Alexander Milne2h 52m4.5 (401.1K)$3 · $0.00
Sitting PrettyRebekah Taussig7h 33m4.5 (18.9K)$26 · $0.00
The Poetic Edda & The Prose EddaSnorri Sturluson, Saemund Sigfusson9h 34m4.5 (4K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Satires & Essays of Mark Twain (Annotated)Mark Twain23h 21m4.5 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
Rilla of InglesideLucy Maud Montgomery10h 58m4.5 (46.7K)$1 · $0.00
The Posthumous Memoirs Of Brás CubasMachado De Assis7h 39m4.4 (120.4K)$5 · $0.00
The Iliad & The OdysseyHomer25h 12m4.4 (39K)$12 · $0.00
You may also like
Iphigenia in TaurisJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1h 57m4.0 (13.1K)$2.30
The Winter's TaleWilliam Shakespeare2h 59m3.9 (54K)$6 · $0.00
The OresteiaAeschylus3h 38m4.2 (61.8K)$12
All TragediesAeschylus11h 10m4.1 (1.6K)$10 · $0.00
Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; AntigoneSophocles4h 48m4.2 (71.8K)$1 · $0.00
Till We Have FacesC. S. Lewis8h 7m4.3 (112.5K)$17
ElectraEuripides1h 46m4.1 (10.5K)$2.30
Plutarch's MoralsPlutarch16h 7m4.3 (283)$1 · $0.00
The Oresteia Trilogy (Unabridged English Translation)Aeschylus4h 34m4.2 (54.7K)$2 · $0.00
The Oresteia Trilogy (Unabridged English Translation) (Annotated)Aeschylus4h 47m4.3 (110.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Children of JocastaNatalie Haynes9h 15m3.9 (16K)$8 · $0.00
The Oresteia: The House of Atreus, Being the Agamemnon, the Libitation Bearers and the FuriesAeschylus3h 48m4.1 (63.7K)$2.30
The Most Misunderstood Women of the BibleMary DeMuth6h 2m4.5 (744)$17
THE ORESTEIA TRILOGY: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers & The EumenidesAeschylus4h 35m4.2 (64.2K)$2 · $0.00
The First Book of Adam and EveRutherford Hayes Platt3h 34m4.0 (2.2K)$2.30
The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation bearers, and the FuriesAeschylus3h 15m4.1 (1.5K)$2 · $0.00
The Seven Plays in English VerseSophocles10h 19m4.3 (1.2K)$2.30
The FirebrandMarion Zimmer Bradley22h 15m4.1 (16.7K)$30
Antiquities of the JewsFlavius Josephus54h 46m4.3 (3.3K)Free
The Birth of AthenaCogitator3h 24m4.2 (12) Only with Ultra