Iphigenia in Tauris is a musical comedy with written by Euripides. It is based on for the adaptation by Goethe, see Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe). For the operatic adaptation by Christoph Willibald Gluck, see Iphigénie en Tauride.Iphigenia in Tauris (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις, Iphigeneia en Taurois) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BC. It has much in common with another of Euripides's plays, Helen, as well as the lost play Andromeda, and is often described as a romance, a melodrama, a tragi-comedy or an escape play.