Sacrifice of Iphigenia
event · 8 works · 8 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Iphigenia's death · a sacrificial beast · bidding him sacrifice his daughter in his simpleness · foully slain · her unremembered sacrifice · my father's slaughtering hand · sacrifice of Iphigenia · that old children's fate · the sacrifice · the sacrifice at Aulis
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2 expressionsThe sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis2 mentions
Agamemnon (Greek) · Iphigenia in Tauris (Greek)
The sacrificer of his daughter — strange!
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Agamemnon
The ritual killing of Agamemnon's daughter at the altar in Aulis, undertaken at Kalchas's prescription to appease Artemis and permit the fleet to sail; narrated by the chorus as an act of terrible, transformative impiety.
The sacrificer of his daughter — strange!
She smote the sacrificers all and each
Since for a wind-abating sacrifice
Andromache
The sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia, alluded to by Peleus as evidence of Menelaus's callousness toward his own family for Helen's sake.
And more than this, with what wanton insult didst thou treat thy brother, bidding him sacrifice his daughter in his simpleness!
Electra
The sacrifice of Iphigenia by Agamemnon at Aulis, recounted by Clytemnestra as her justification for killing him.
and there he stretched Iphigenia over the pyre, and cut her white cheek.
Iphigenia in Aulis
The planned ritual killing of Iphigenia at Aulis to secure Artemis' favor and allow the Greek fleet to sail for Troy, the central event of the window.
O lady revered, delighting in human sacrifice, send on its way to Phrygia’s land the army of the Hellenes, to Troy’s abodes of guile, and grant that Agamemnon may wreathe his head with deathless fame, a crown of fairest glory for the spearmen of Hellas.
Behold the maiden on her way, the destroyer of Ilium’s town and the Phrygians, with garlands twined about her head, and drops of lustral water on her, soon to be sprinkled with her gushing blood the altar of a murderous goddess, when her shapely neck is severed.
Begin the sacrifice with the baskets, let the fire blaze for the purifying meal of sprinkling, and my father pace from left to right about the altar;
Iphigenia in Tauris
Agamemnon's attempted sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis before the Trojan expedition, from which Artemis rescued her.
Lady Artemis, you who saved me from my father’s slaughtering hand by the clefts of Aulis, save me now also, and these men;
she stands convicted as betrayer of her unremembered sacrifice to the goddess in Aulis.
Orestes
The sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis to secure favorable winds for the Greek fleet's voyage to Troy.
As for what Aulis took, the sacrifice of my sister, I let you have that;
De Rerum Natura
The sacrifice of Iphigenia by her father Agamemnon at Aulis, described in emotional detail to demonstrate that religion leads to great crimes rather than piety.
Such are the crimes to which Religion leads.
As once at Aulis, the elected chiefs,
With Agamemnon's daughter, foully slain.
Chrestomathy
The attempted sacrifice of Iphigenia to appease Artemis's wrath.
and when Calchas had told them of the goddess's wrath and had bidden them sacrifice Iphigenia to Artemis, they send for her as though for marriage to Achilles and set about the sacrifice.