Dec 19, 2009

Iphigenia in Aulis | Iphigenia in Aulis

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Author: Euripides
First Published: 405
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Tragedy
Time of Work: The beginning of the Trojan War
Setting: Aulis, on the western coast of Euboea
Genres: Drama, Tragedy
Subjects: War, Kings, queens, or royalty, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Greek or Roman times, Sacrifice, Greece or Greek people, Oracles, Trojan War, Bronze Age
Locales: Greece, ancient, Euboea, Aulis

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Iphigenia (IHF-uh-jih- NI-uh), the older daughter of King Agamemnon. The Greek prophet Calchas has revealed that Iphigenia must be sacrificed to the goddess Artemis to secure a favorable wind for the Greek ships becalmed on their way to conquer Troy. Agamemnon has summoned his daughter to Aulis, where the ships have been delayed, under pretext that she is to be married to Achilles. She appears as a very young and delicate girl, completely devoted to her father. She greets him with affection and gaiety, but the scene is pathetic and filled with tragic irony....

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Iphigenia in Aulis | Iphigenia in Aulis

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