Iphigenia
mythological figure · 8 works · 11 mentions · 35 anchored passages
Agamemnon's daughter · child · daughter · daughter of Agamemnon · my child · priestess · Iphianassa · dead girl · my daughter · one on behalf of many
in the texts
Iphigenia in Aulis
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's daughter, lured to Aulis under the pretense of marrying Achilles but destined by oracle for sacrifice to Artemis.
In our perplexity, we asked Calchas, the seer, and he answered that we should sacrifice my own child Iphigenia to Artemis, whose home is in this land, and we would sail and sack the Phrygians’ capital.
Go within—it is wrong for maidens to be seen—after you have given me your hand and a kiss, on the eve of your lengthy sojourn far from your father’s side.
Do not be angry with me, mother, if I run from your side and throw myself on my father’s breast.
Iphigenia in Tauris
Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, secretly rescued from sacrifice at Aulis by Artemis and now priestess of Artemis's temple among the Taurians, where she must consecrate Greek strangers for sacrifice.
Lord and general of Hellas, Agamemnon, you will not set free your ships from land until Artemis has your daughter Iphigenia as a victim.
from him I was born, his child Iphigenia, by the daughter of Tyndareus.
O child of Agamemnon beneath the earth, I send these to you as one dead.
Tusculan Disputations
Mythological daughter offered as a sacrifice at Aulis.
for Iphigenia at Aulis bids herself be led to be sacrificed, that the enemy be drawn forth by her blood.
Electra
Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sacrificed at Aulis before the Trojan expedition, cited by Clytemnestra as her reason for killing Agamemnon.
and there he stretched Iphigenia over the pyre, and cut her white cheek.
Orestes
Sister of Electra and Orestes, sacrificed at Aulis before the Trojan expedition sailed.
As for what Aulis took, the sacrifice of my sister, I let you have that;
Chrysothemis, Iphigenia, and myself, Electra;
De Rerum Natura
Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, depicted as an innocent girl sacrificed at Aulis on Diana's altar before the Trojan expedition, used by Lucretius as the paradigmatic example of the crimes religion leads men to commit.
With Agamemnon's daughter, foully slain.
To give the ships auspicious winds for Troy:
They raised her up, they bore the trembling girl
Chrestomathy
Daughter summoned under false pretenses to be sacrificed to Artemis, then rescued and made immortal.
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.
Electra
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's sacrificed daughter, invoked by Clytemnestra as the cause of Agamemnon's deserved punishment.
Did Menelaus not have two children, who should in fairness have died instead of my daughter, since the father and mother from whom they were sprung had caused that voyage?
Angered by this, Leto’s daughter detained the Greeks so that in requital for the beast’s life my father should sacrifice his own daughter.
Not to you alone of mortals, my daughter, has sorrow come, though you face it with less restraint than those girls inside, Chrysothemis and Iphianassa, whose parents and blood you share.