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Questa terza opinione, che è sostenuta da Euforione Calcidense, da Alessandro Pleuronio e da Stesicoro Imereo, riportati da Pausania nel libro II. è stata seguitata da me nell’ordimento del Dramma: poiché la prima menava la favola a un fine troppo tragico, e la seconda ad uno scioglimento troppo incredibile. Nelle prime maniere l’argomento è stato maneggiato dall’incomparabile Euripide, e nella terza dal famoso Racine. Confesso di aver tolto assai dall’uno, e dall’altro, ad oggetto di render meno imperfetto che per me fosse possibile, il mio componimento, dove gli amori di Achille, e di Ifigenia, l’andata di quello a Lesbo, donde ne condusse Elisena prigione, ed altre circostanze della favola non sono senza istorico fondamento.}} | Questa terza opinione, che è sostenuta da Euforione Calcidense, da Alessandro Pleuronio e da Stesicoro Imereo, riportati da Pausania nel libro II. è stata seguitata da me nell’ordimento del Dramma: poiché la prima menava la favola a un fine troppo tragico, e la seconda ad uno scioglimento troppo incredibile. Nelle prime maniere l’argomento è stato maneggiato dall’incomparabile Euripide, e nella terza dal famoso Racine. Confesso di aver tolto assai dall’uno, e dall’altro, ad oggetto di render meno imperfetto che per me fosse possibile, il mio componimento, dove gli amori di Achille, e di Ifigenia, l’andata di quello a Lesbo, donde ne condusse Elisena prigione, ed altre circostanze della favola non sono senza istorico fondamento.}} | ||
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The Greek army, which had been prepared to sail against Troy under the command of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, was held up for several months in the harbour of Aulis by adverse winds. They called upon the oracle of Diana, and the soothsayer Chalchas replied that they would never sail to Troy unless the wrath of Diana was appeased by the death and sacrifice of Iphigenia, daughter of King Agamemnon. This sacrifice is one of the most famous events reported by the poets, who, however, have recounted it very differently. Some have asserted that truly Iphigenia was sacrificed. So did Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles and others. Some have been of the opinion that Diana, moved by pity, had abducted her at the point of the sacrifice from the hands of Chalchas and taken her to Tauride, so that instead of her a hind or other animal was killed. Euripides shows that he too was of this sentiment and Ovid mentions it in his Metamorphoses. Finally, others have written that an Iphigenia was really sacrificed, which wasn't the daughter of Agamemnon, but a daughter of Helen, born in secret of Theseus, before she became the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, to whom she never confided this secret and first marriage with Theseus; and consequently she kept the birth of this Iphigenia of hers hidden from him and from everybody, who had her raised under another name; and I give her that of Elisena. | |||
This third opinion, which is supported by Euphorion Chalcidense, Alexander Pleuronius and Stesichorus Hymereus, quoted by Pausanias in Book II, was followed by me in the making of the play, because the first led the fable to too tragic an end and the second to too incredible a dissolution. In the first manner the subject was handled by the incomparable Euripides and in the third by the famous Racine. I confess that I have taken much from one and the other, in order to make my composition as imperfect as possible, where the loves of Achilles and Iphigenia, his going to Lesbos, from whence he led Elisena to prison, and other circumstances of the fable are not without historical foundation. | |||
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