The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides

A woman rescued from a sacrificial fate serves as a priestess to a foreign goddess and is forced to consecrate strangers to a bloody ritual while she broods on exile, betrayal, and revenge. When two Greek youths arrive with a mission involving the goddess's image, recognition and kinship emerge, and the trio devise a desperate, cunning plan to deceive the local king and escape with the sacred statue. The play moves from a tragic atmosphere to a reconciliatory resolution while exploring themes of familial loyalty, piety versus ritual violence, identity and exile, and the moral costs of survival and mercy.