WorkEuripides
Iphigenia in Aulis (c. 405 BCE) Inferred
Euripides (c. 480–406 BCE) · c. 414 BCE
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Documented 1842–1850
Letters • Books • Journals
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“You did not give me back with Iphigenia leaves in the handwriting of E. Hoar, exact translations of my extracts made by her from the Greek for me.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
Engagement type Translated (Fuller's Greek extracts rendered into English) automatically qualifies per rule.
“With what artless art the narrative rises to the crisis. The conflicts in Agamemnon's mind... 'Ah me! It is that breast, those cheeks, those golden tresses!”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Part of a massive excerpted/translated Euripides passage (over 1000-line span) with quoted play dialogue.
“Lately in studying that heaving work, the Iphigenia of Euripides, I have been interested, most of all, to observe how the mind of the audience is prepared for the …”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments, 1842." Margaret Fuller Family Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Better a thousand women should perish than one man cease to see the light.”
Inferred Fuller attributes this to 'him who makes Iphigenia say to Achilles' — Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis.
Line 'Better a thousand women should perish than one man cease to see the light' is attributed to 'him who makes Iphigenia say to Achilles' — this is Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis.
“Iphigenia! [...] you were worthy to live / We are fallen on evil times..." [Miranda's notes] [...] "Had I, my father, the persuasive voice / Of Orpheus...”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“You did not give me back with Iphigenia leaves in the handwriting of E. Hoar, exact translations of my extracts made by her from the Greek for me.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller mentions "Iphigenia leaves in the handwriting of E. Hoar, exact translations of my extracts made by her from the Greek for me," establishing that she had a Greek-language text of an Iphigenia work, made extracts from it, and had Elizabeth Hoar translate those passages.