The Emotion of Grief and its Gestures in the Lament in the Parodos of Iphigenia in Tauris
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In the introductory rhesis of Iphigenia in Tauris, she details the story of her sacrifice at Aulis, the reason for her presence among the Taurians and her function as priestess. Then she relates her dream by which she interprets that her brother Orestes has died. Composed of Greek women who assist Iphigenia in the temple, the chorus enters and sings with her a threnos for Orestes. It is a funeral lament in the distance, mobilized only by a dream and the subsequent conviction of being the last representative of a devastated lineage. It is our aim to analyse the lexicon of grief and its gestures as it unfolds in the initial threnos, operating with the categories of "emotional script" and "affective flow".
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