YORGOS LANTHIMOS’ THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER: CONTEMPORARY RECEPTION OF EURIPIDES’ IPHIGENIA IN AULIS

Ancient Greek subjects preserve their relevance in our times through timeless, profound and comprehensive consideration of the human soul interpersonal relations, which remain unchanged throughout centuries accordance with nature. Euripides’ tragedy Iphigenia Aulis has not been exploited often by later writers film makers who have focused mainly on murder King Mycenae, Agamemnon, destiny dynasty Atreidae Aeschylus’ trilogy. Nevertheless, one main reasons for Agamemnon his wife Clytemnestra is sacrifice daughter Iphigenia, story told Euripides tragedies Tauris. In Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing a Sacred Deer (2017) character Steven, just like informed will gods demand to be given. carefully considered led Steven face an inevitable choice highlight common features, hubris decisive among them. Comparison texts under analysis shows that acceptance inevitability situation families characters develops classical stages from denial understanding nothing else depends And while plot device “deus ex machina” exploited, as are satisfied sacrifice, members family actually dies order restored, because presupposes atonement blood another. This reception particular interest Lanthimos origin at certain moment career decided move away native space start creating films more general Western audience. paper analyses how, this post-modernist multimodal text expressive means theatre combined elements modern cinema.