Anyone studying Goethe's Iphigenia drama cannot overlook the ancient original by Euripides, which has also been received in literature, music, and art. At the center, as is often the case with Euripides, is a woman who devises a clever plan to deceive the male authorities and achieve her goals. The philologically faithful translation presents the Greek text in its various dimensions – and the afterword reveals that Euripides also encountered the myth and had to reshape it for his own purposes.