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	Iphigeneia at Aulis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iphigeneia at Aulis, written in 410 BC, is the last surviving work of the playwright Euripides.
		Iphigeneia is thrilled at the prospect of marrying one of the great heroes of the Greek army, but she, her mother, and the groom-to-be in the supposed marriage soon discover the truth.
		Iphigeneia was swept off by the gods, thus paving the way for the plot of another of Euripides' plays, Iphigeneia in Tauris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iphigeneia_at_Aulis (713 words)

	Iphigeneia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sacrifice of Iphigenia by the Illioupersis Painter
		Iphigeneia is sometimes called a daughter of Theseus and Helen raised by Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
		Iphigeneia is known by Greek myths sources since 7-6th century BC and is so closely identified with Artemis that some scholars believe she was originally a rival hunting goddess whose cult was subsumed by Artemis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iphigeneia (802 words)

	Iphigeneia
		Iphigeneia was the daughter of Agamemnon in Greek mythology.
		In order to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes for killing his mother and her lover, he was ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris[?] (now the Crimea), carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and bring it to Athens.
		Iphigeneia was so closely identified with Artemis, and was not mentioned until late in the history of Greece, well after the stories of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra were first recorded, that some scholars believe she was originally a rival hunting goddess whose cult was subsumed by Artemis.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ip/Iphigeneia.html (361 words)

	IPHIGENEIA - LoveToKnow Article on IPHIGENEIA
		Orestes and Iphigeneia fled, taking with them the image; at Delphi they met Electra, the sister of Orestes, who having heard that her brother had been sacrificed by the Tauric priestess, was about to tear out the eyes of Iphigeneia.
		Attica being one of the chief seats of the worship of Artemis, this explains why Iphigeneia is sometimes called a daughter of Theseus and Helen, and thereby connected with the national hero.
		Originally, Iphigeneia, the mighty born, is probably merely an epithet of Artemis, in which the notion of a priestess of the goddess had its origin.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IP/IPHIGENEIA.htm (506 words)

	Lives of the Greek Heroines: Iphigeneia
		Iphigeneia once there, the cruel plot was quickly unravelled, and the noble son of Peleus, the unconscious bridegroom of the maiden, was very wroth, and though he had never cast a thought upon her, he bravely promised to stand by her, and not permit her to be handed over to the cruel priests.
		Meanwhile the maiden Iphigeneia, snatched from the sacrificial knife by the mighty arm of Artemis, was carried in the chariot of the goddess, rapt in deep sleep, far beyond the straits of Helle, through the blue Clashers to a temple which she had among the Thracians on the Tauric Chersonese.
		The heart of the young Iphigeneia rejoiced to be still among the living, and she broke into grateful adoration of the goddess whose mercy had saved her, and in her chastened mood she was well content to spend her days in learning from the priestess all the duties of her office.
	www.sacred-texts.com /wmn/lgh/lgh11.htm (2403 words)

	Heroines
		Iphigeneia was the sister of Electra, Chrysothemis and Orestes.
		Euripides' original play may actually have Iphigeneia killed on the altar, by the sacrificial knife, but the play was later modified that the goddess Artemis had spirited her away to the land of the Taurians.
		Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Iphigeneia, Orestes, Aegisthus, Pylades, Tyndareus, Helen, Menelaus.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/heroines.html (8469 words)

	Deborah Lyons: GENDER AND IMMORTALITY -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Goddess and Her Doubles
		Iphigeneia, instead, remains blocked at the moment of transition, and instead of undergoing the changes by which women's lives are usually marked, becomes a stand-in for the goddess herself.
		Pausanias (2.22.6-7) cites Euphorion of Chalcis, Alexandros of Pleuron, and Stesichorus of Himera as authorities for this parentage of Iphigeneia.
		For Iphigeneia remains at the threshold of a transition that is frequently equated symbolically with death.
	pup.princeton.edu /books/lyons/chapter_5.html (15525 words)

	The Greek Play at R-MWC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Clytemnestra confronts Agamemnon, and Iphigeneia begs him for her life, but he fears the wrath of the army and does not relent.
		Iphigeneia then changes her mind and her heart and decides that the best thing to do is to go willingly to her sacrifice, for the sake of the Greek army and the honor of Greek women.
		Iphigeneia had bravely gone to the altar and Agamemnon had wielded the knife, but when he struck, his daughter had disappeared, replaced with a deer.
	www.rmwc.edu /greekplay/about_us/iphigeneia_plot.asp (504 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 619 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While Iphigeneia was serving Artemis as priestess in Tauris, her brother Orestes, on the advice of an oracle, formed the plan of fetching the image of Artemis in Tauris, which was believed once to have fallen from heaven, and of carrying it to Attica.
		But Iphigeneia recognised her brother, and fled with him and the statue of the goddess.
		Electra therefore resolved on putting Iphigeneia's eyes out, but was prevented by the interference of Orestes, and a scene of recognition took place.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1727.html (928 words)

	Iphigeneia at Aulis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iphigeneia at Aulis is set in the port city of Aulis just prior to the start of the Trojan War.
		So Klytemnestra brings Iphigeneia to Aulis; and Agamemmnon is forced to choose between his daughter and his desire to lead his near-mutinous troops to war.
		Heather Rogers held her own as Iphigeneia, and Anne Foldeak, Lauren Barrett Porter, Meghan Snowden, Heidi Hansen-Young, and Emily Stokes were all in sync as the Chorus.
	www.oobr.com /top/volFour/seven/iphi.html (432 words)

	Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iphigeneia is sacrificed by her father Agamemnon as the Greek army waits ‘in that sad place’, as Tennyson wrote, ‘which men called Aulis in those iron years.’ This, in return for the lifting of the wind and a favourable journey to Troy.
		Iphigeneia is a priestess of Artemis, ‘Mother, Mistress of Animals, Goddess of Childbirth,’ but this displeases Croton, the high priest of Zeus, whose influence is on the ascendancy.
		Iphigeneia is also to be a gift to whomever her father wishes her to marry and ultimately she is to be a gift to the god Zeus when she is sacrificed to him.
	www.cercles.com /review/r8/unsworth.html (2175 words)

	The Keystone - Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
		The appearance of his conscience is too slow, however, when Iphigeneia, played by Valentina Mohle, and her mother, Clytemestra, played by Lauren Roth, arrive at the port city for the wedding.
		The cast of “Iphigeneia at Aulis” handled the storyline with precision, living the characters they portrayed as true to life as they could muster.
		Through the willing suspension of disbelief the entire audience was captivated into believing that she really was Iphigeneia's mother, and she was truly grieving as any mother would.
	keystoneonline.com /story.asp?Art_id=595 (682 words)

	Euripides - Plays - Iphigeneia T. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iphigeneia T. is dated to the late 410s on stylistic ground, probably falling somewhere between Troiades and Helen, around the same time as Ion.
		Iphigeneia has lived in the land of the Taurians on the Black Sea ever since she was apparently sacrificed by her father Agamemnon in order to secure favourable winds for the Trojan expedition; in fact, Artemis substituted a deer for the girl and rescued her.
		Years later, Iphigeneia longs to return to Greece and leave her position as priestess of Artemis, in which she is obliged to sacrifice all Greeks who come to that country.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /classics/staff/LSF/Euripides/iphigeneiat.html (317 words)

	Agamenon's Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Agamemnon felt that the sacrificing of Iphigeneia was necessary to calm Artemis, as Artemis would not let the Greek army set sail until a sacrifice was made, in recompense for the impending slaughter of Troy.
		The decision to sacrifice Iphigeneia must have been a very difficult one to make, as he would have known that his wife would be distraught.
		In killing Iphigeneia, Agamemnon resurrected the curse of his family line - he left Clytemnestra for ten years to plot his demise with her lover Aegisthus; who incidentally wants revenge for the treatment of his father in the company of Agamemnon’s father, Atreus.
	www.craigflower.supanet.com /college/nikki.htm (612 words)

	House of Pelops
		Some say that Iphigeneia was actually daughter of Helen and Theseus, and that Clytemnestra raised the girl as her own, since Helen was too young.
		Before she was to be kill, Artemis spirited Iphigeneia away (possibly to Tauris, according to Euripides, who wrote a play on Iphigeneia among the Taurians), and replaced the maiden with a deer.
		Orestes was brother of Iphigeneia, Electra and Chrysothemis.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/pelops.html (4035 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 618 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Either of these circumstances is said to have been the cause of the calm which detained the Greek fleet in the port of Aulis, when the Greeks wanted to sail against Troy.
		Agamemnon at first resisted the command, but the entreaties of Menelaus at length prevailed upon him to give way, and he consented to Iphigeneia being fetched by Odysseus and Dio-medes, under the pretext that she was to be married to Achilles.
		When Iphigeneia had arrived, and was on the point of being sacrificed, Artemis carried her in a cloud to Tauris, where she was made to serve the goddess as her priestess, while a stag, or, according to others, a she-bear, a bull, or an old woman, was substituted in her place and sacrificed.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1726.html (721 words)

	Iphigeneia -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		When the Achaean fleet was becalmed at Aulis, Iphigeneia's father sacrificed her to Artemis in order to secure favourable winds to carry the ships to Troy.
		Iphigeneia's story is treated in plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
		He foretold the duration of the siege of Troy, demanded the sacrifice of Iphigeneia, daughter of Agamemnon (king of Mycenae), and advised the construction of the wooden horse with which the Greeks finally took Troy.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9368151 (507 words)

	Iphigenia
		She was the first person to have her life flipped upside down because of the Trojan War and it was her death which allowed the Greek fleet to set sail for Troy.
		Edward Tripp writes that "Iphigeneia was worshiped in at least one Greek city.
		Most scholars believe that Iphigeneia was, in fact, a form of Artemis" (Tripp, 324).
	www.stanford.edu /~plomio/iphigenia.html (705 words)

	Book Review - The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth
		Iphigeneia has been told that Achilles has asked for her hand in marriage, so she eagerly makes preparations for her wedding at Aulis before the ships sail.
		All this leads to Iphigeneia's arrival in Aulis, the sudden dying of the wind once she arrives, the plot by Sisipyla and Macris to save her life, and Calchas finally finding the strength and willpower to tell the king the real explanation behind his visions.
		Sisipyla loves the princess Iphigeneia and would give her own life for her, while Macris longs to possess her, not just for her beauty, but because she'd be a trophy to his ambition and glory.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /songs_of_the_kings/review (1774 words)

	Amazon.com: Iphigeneia at Aulis (Greek Tragedy in New Translations): Books: Euripides,W. S. Merwin,George E. Dimock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In their translation of Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis, noted American poet W.S. Merwin and eminent classicist George E. Dimock offer a compelling look at the devasting consequence of "man's inhumanity to man." A stern critique of Greek culture, Iphigeneia at Aulis condemns the Trojan War, depicting the ugly and awesome power of political ambition.
		Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter Iphigeneia to facilitate the Greek Armies advance on Troy is marvelously conveyed by Merwin, as he impressively recreates the broad array of moral and emotional tones with which Euripides has invested one of the most moving plays in the history of drama.
		Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis was not produced until after the author's death, and it is generally thought to be, to some degree at least, unfinished.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195077091?v=glance (1745 words)

	Greek Mythology: FAVOUR OF ARTEMIS
		IPHIGENEIA A Princess of Mykenai (in Southern Greece) who was offered up by her father Agamemnon as a sacrifice to appease the goddess Artemis.
		Agamemnon placed her [Iphigeneia] on the altar and was about to sacrifice her when Artemis spirited her off to the Taurians, where she set her up as her own priestess; she put a deer on the altar in the girl’s place.
		After the passage of time, Artemis transferred Iphigeneia to what is called the White Island to be with Akhilleus and changed her into an ageless immortal deity, calling her Orsilokhia (Helper of Childbirth) instead of Iphigeneia.
	www.theoi.com /Olympios/ArtemisFavour.html (5293 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'Iphigeneia at Aulis'
		In Iphigeneia at Aulis, currently running at City Lights, the goddess Artemis has told a seer that the only way the "weather-bound" Greek fleet is going to get enough wind to set sail for Troy is for King Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter Iphigeneia.
		With a minimal set--military tent to the right, tree stump to the left--Josh Fanene as Agamemnon gains command of the space by moving from one side of the stage to another during his speeches.
		Less effective is the unevenness of Agamemnon sitting on a stump while for several monologue minutes Iphigeneia (Amy Schwab) clutches and pleads for her life.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.11.04/iphigeneia-0433.html (622 words)

	Aleksandar Gatalica Home Page
		It is late Euripides tragedy, written in years of retrogression and capitulation of Athenian polis, in the years of 408-406 b.c.
		It is so probably most sensitive play by old Euripides, fulfilled with passion, bravery, and deep love between Hellenic army commander Agamemnon and his innocent daughter Iphigeneia, who must to be sacrificed to induce mercy of goods who doesn't want to give wind to Achaian ships.
		He, who was always nobleman and fear warrior, in tragic situation must to lie everyone: these who want to sacrifice Iphigeneia as soon as possible, and these who come to save his daughter.
	www.fmu.bg.ac.yu /sinadin/gatalica/iphigeneia_at_aulis.htm (241 words)

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