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.
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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.
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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.
Chrysothemis, Iphigenia, and myself, Electra;
As for what Aulis took, the sacrifice of my sister, I let you have that;
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.
On to the altar- hither led not now
Making his child a sacrificial beast
But sinless woman, sinfully foredone,
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.