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NOTES FOR IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS
R. POTTER, whose translation of Aeschylus appeared in 1777, did a complete
version of Euripides, which was published in 1781 and 1782. In the
present rendering, Potter has followed the eighteenth century convention
of using the Roman or Latin forms for various proper names. Hence
Artemis and Athena appear as Diana and Minerva.
1. Modern editors do not assign the parts of this choral passage as they
are found here.
2. The following lines seem to reflect Euripides' violent reaction against
the taints of anthropomorphism in the orthodox theology. Cf. Plato's
consistently held position that a god by his very nature must be good.
3. These closing lines, found also at the end of The Phoenissae and the
Orestes, have nothing to do with the play, but are really a prayer for
victory in the dramatic contest.