Sacrifice at Aulis
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Iphigenia's near-sacrifice · hind sacrifice · the sacrifice · the sacrifice at Aulis
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Iphigenia in Tauris
The ritual near-sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis, ordered by Calchas's prophecy and averted at the last moment by Artemis's substitution of a deer.
But when he met with dreadful winds that would not let him sail, he went to burnt sacrifices, and Calchas had this to say:
But others carry out the sacrifices, not to be spoken of, within the temple of the goddess.
from the beginning the Fates attendant on my birth directed a hard upbringing for me, wooed by Hellenes, the first-born child in the home, whom the unhappy daughter of Leda, by my father’s fault, bore as a victim and a sacrifice not joyful, she brought me up as an offering.
Agesilaus
Agesilaus's attempted sacrifice at Aulis in imitation of Agamemnon, using a hind instead of his own daughter, interrupted by angry Boeotian officials.
So he caused a hind to be wreathed with chaplets, and ordered his own seer to perform the sacrifice, instead of the one customarily appointed to this office by the Boeotians.
Accordingly, when the Boeotian magistrates heard of this, they were moved to anger, and sent their officers, forbidding Agesilaüs to sacrifice contrary to the laws and customs of the Boeotians.
And since thou commandest the same hosts that he did, and wagest war on the same foes, and settest out for the war from the same place, it is meet that thou shouldst sacrifice also to the goddess the sacrifice which he made there before he set sail.