Abstract
The focus of this paper is the analysis of the film Sophie’s Choice (1982) from the perspective of the classical reception. Traditionally, it has been mostly analyzed with a philosophical and an ethical perspective, but not from the point of view of Classical Philology and Comparative Literature. Specifically, I shall study this film as a reformulation of Iphigenia myth, placing emphasis on the leitmotiv of the sacrifice and on Sophie, a mother who has to decide which of her children to sacrifice. Furthermore, I shall examine how the myth has been adapted into the Holocaust context.
