Aulis
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narrow straits of Aulis · the clefts of Aulis · the famous clefts of Aulis · the hollow bays of Aulis · the narrow havens of Aulis · the sea-coast at Aulis
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Iphigenia in Aulis
The narrow strait on the Boeotian coast where the becalmed Greek fleet is gathered before sailing to Troy.
— The sea-coast at Aulis.
To the sandy beach of sea-coast Aulis I have come after a voyage through the tides of narrow Euripus, leaving Chalcis, my city which feeds the waters of far-famed Arethusa near the sea, so that I might behold the army of the Achaeans and the ships rowed by those godlike heroes;
I wish this Aulis had never received in its havens here the stems of their bronze-beaked ships, the fleet which was speeding them to Troy;
Iphigenia in Tauris
Port in Boeotia where the Greek fleet gathered before Troy and where Iphigenia was nearly sacrificed to Artemis.
his marriage at Aulis was in vain.
Yes, for it was a cheat, as those who experienced it know.
Where Euripus rolls about its whirlpools in the frequent winds and twists the darkening waves, my father sacrificed me to Artemis for Helen’s sake, or so he thought, in the famous clefts of Aulis.
Hellenica
The sacred site associated with Agamemnon's legendary sacrifice before the Trojan expedition, where Agesilaus attempts and is prevented from sacrificing before his own Asian campaign.
while as for himself, he desired to go and offer sacrifice at Aulis, the place where Agamemnon had sacrificed before he sailed to Troy.
Again, they recalled that they had refused to permit Agesilaus to sacrifice at Aulis and had cast from the altar the victims already offered, and that they also would not join Agesilaus for the campaign in Asia.
For he was able to say that his people were the only ones among the Greeks who had fought on the side of the King at Plataea, that they had never afterwards undertaken a campaign against the King, and that the Lacedaemonians had made war upon them for precisely the reason that they had declined to go with Agesilaus against him and had refused to permit Agesilaus to sacrifice to Artemis at Aulis, t …
Electra
The port where the Greek fleet was held and where Iphigenia was sacrificed before the Trojan expedition.
But that man went from the house, taking my child, with the persuasion of a marriage with Achilles, to Aulis which held the fleet;
Orestes
The place where Iphigenia was sacrificed before the Greek fleet sailed for Troy.
As for what Aulis took, the sacrifice of my sister, I let you have that;
Works and Days
The port from which the narrator made his one sea voyage and where the Achaeans are said to have gathered before sailing to Troy.
for never yet have I sailed by ship over the wide sea, but only to Euboea from Aulis where the Achaeans once stayed through much storm when they had gathered a great host from divine Hellas for Troy, the land of fair women.
Iliad
The mustering-point where the Achaean fleet gathered nine years earlier and where Kalkhas interpreted the serpent omen.
These were they that dwelt in Hyria and rocky Aulis, and who held Schoinos, Skolos, and the highlands of Eteonos, with Thespeia, Graia, and the fair city of Mykalessos.
We were ranged round about a fountain offering hecatombs to the gods upon their holy altars, and there was a fine plane-tree from beneath which there welled a stream of pure water.
De Rerum Natura
The Greek port city of Aulis where Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to Diana to obtain winds for the fleet sailing to Troy.
As once at Aulis, the elected chiefs,
Chrestomathy
Site where the Greek fleet assembles twice, once for a portent and once for the sacrifice of Iphigenia.
And after this they assemble at Aulis and offer sacrifice;
When the fleet had assembled for the second time at Aulis, Agamemnon, having shot a deer while hunting, declared that he surpassed even Artemis.