Goethes Iphigenie Auf Tauris

Excerpt from Goethes Iphigenie Auf Tauris: Edited With Introduction, Repetitional Exercises Notes and Vocabulary As Iphigenia and the temple maidens are singing their dirge for dead Orestes, a herdsman enters with the news of his capture of two Greek youths. At first the priestess finds but small pity for the fate of her two countrymen, for she is brooding over the death of her brother and cherishing thoughts Of revenge upon Helen and Menelaus who have caused all her present woe. But soon she recalls her own exile and her softer self returns, to feel anew repellent horror at the bloody duty which she behaves Diana would never sanction, for no god is evil; men do but ascribe to them their own wickedness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.