iphigenia in English

noun
1
the daughter of Agamemnon, who was obliged to offer her as a sacrifice to Artemis when the Greek fleet was becalmed at Aulis on its way to the Trojan War. In some versions of the story, Artemis saved her life and took her to Tauris in the Crimea, where she became a priestess until rescued by her brother Orestes.

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1. It does not mention the sacrifice of Iphigenia, and makes only a dubious allusion to the Judgment of Paris.

2. At only four festivals was Euripides awarded the first prize—the fourth posthumously, for the tetralogy that included Bacchants and Iphigenia at Aulis

3. Agamemnon and Iphigenia Agamemnon was the King of Mycenae [see Argos on map] and brother to Menelaus, the King of Sparta []

4. In order to please the gods so that they might make the winds start to blow, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia.

5. Furthermore, the second part of the book seeks to reconstruct various relations between Diana’s Arician cult and the mythical figures Orestes and Iphigenia, Virbius, Hippolytus, and Egeria

6. The Trojan War cycle, a collection of epic poems, starts with the events leading up to the war: Eris and the golden apple of Kallisti, the Judgement of Paris, the abduction of Helen, the sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis.

7. Aegisthus is Clytemnestra ’s second husband and the king of Mycenae in Electra.After Agamemnon sacrificed his and Clytemnestra’s daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis, Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon as revenge on Clytemnestra’s behalf.Clytemnestra and Aegisthus were already having an affair while Agamemnon was away fighting the Trojan War, and Electra implies that Clytemnestra and

8. The Fall of Constantinople: A Poem, with a Preface, Animadverting in Detail on the Unprecedented Conduct of the Royal Society of Literature Towards the Candidates for the Three Premiums that it Deliberately Proposed and Subsequently Withdrew ; to which are Added Parga, The Iphigenia of Timanthes, Palmyra, Emineh's Death, and Other Poems