Definitions

1. Iphigenia was the daughter of Clytemnestra (a sister of Helen of Troy), and Agamemnon (the king who led the Greeks at Troy). (Web site)
2. Iphigenia was the one he had to sacrifice, Electra was the other daughter that, with her brother, killed Clytemnestra. (Web site)
3. Iphigenia was a princess of the ancient Greek city-state of Mycenae, some sources say she was the oldest daughter.
4. Iphigenia, an innocent maiden, is slaughtered on the altar.
5. Iphigenia, the Priestess, comes out of the Temple.

Identity

1. Iphigenia finds out from Orestes, who is still concealing his identity, that Orestes is alive.

Anger

1. Clytemnestra: Yes, he did provide me some company when my Iphigenia was gone, but my anger towards Agamemnon never dissipated.

Children

1. Agamemnon married Clytemnestra, and their children were Iphigenia, Electra, and Orestes. (Web site)

Killing

1. She declares that she has murdered Agamemnon for killing their daughter Iphigenia and also for keeping Cassandra as his concubine.

Greece

1. Iphigenia, unwilling to carry out this act, lets Pylades escape so he can bring home to Greece a letter for her sister Electra. (Web site)
2. At Tauris he was reunited with Iphigenia and with her assistance stole the image and safely returned to Greece.

Spirited

1. The high priestess of Artemis is none other than Iphigenia who, instead of being killed by her dad, was spirited away to Tauris.

Attendants

1. The attendants to Iphigenia leave to prepare for the sacrifice. (Web site)

Intrepid

1. Intrepid and Iphigenia were scuttled at the narrowest point of the canal.

Gluck

1. Nuccia Focile - who has appeared in several productions with the company including the title role in the 2007 production of Gluck ' s Iphigenia in Tauris. (Web site)
2. Berlioz's Les Troyens is a true distillation of Gluck, and his Cassandra is completely modeled on Iphigenia. (Web site)

Tresses

1. Iphigenia Cut not off the tresses of your hair for me, nor clothe yourself in sable garb. (Web site)

First-Born Daughter

1. This was his first-born daughter, Iphigenia. (Web site)

Neil Labute

1. Neil LaBute drew heavily on the story of Iphigenia for his short play Iphigenia in Orem, one of his Bash series. (Web site)

Mourning Raiment

1. IPHIGENIA Put not mourning raiment on them either. (Web site)

Seest

1. IPHIGENIA She whom thou seest: but interrupt me not.

Iphigenia Nay

1. IPHIGENIA Nay, by the gods, tell me, and cheer my soul.

Maiden Iphigenia

1. Agamemnon, however reluctant, yielded his consent, and the maiden Iphigenia was sent for under the pretence that she was to be married to Achilles. (Web site)

Dead Iphigenia

1. What I am looking for is an Agamemnon who seeks out the dead Iphigenia, his murdered daughter, to ask for her forgiveness. (Web site)
2. Agamemnon runs up the steps and as he reaches the top of hill, his face reflects what we assume is the sight of the dead Iphigenia. (Web site)

Persuade Agamemnon

1. Clytemnestra and Iphigenia try in vain to persuade Agamemnon to change his mind, but the general believes that he has no choice. (Web site)

King Agamemnon

1. One day in his travels, Pan meets Iphigenia, a human raised as the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. (Web site)

Fair Wind

1. A great fleet is assembled, but before it can leave Agamemnon has to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to secure a fair wind.

Agamemnon Sacrifices

1. She withholds winds unless and until Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia. (Web site)

Eldest Daughter

1. Iphigenia was the eldest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon.

Iphigenia Yes

1. IPHIGENIA Yes, hate not my father, thy own husband. (Web site)
2. IPHIGENIA Yes, as thou seest, undeservedly. (Web site)

Favorable Winds

1. In order to win favorable winds for the journey, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis.
2. To obtain favorable winds for the Greek fleet sailing to Troy, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis and so came under a curse. (Web site)
3. IPHIGENIA was sacrificed by her father to help get favorable winds for the fleet attacking Troy.

Human Sacrifice

1. They have an excuse: Agamemnon gave his daughter Iphigenia for a human sacrifice. (Web site)

Time

1. Achilles and his Thessalian followers rush in to save Iphigenia, and for a time the contest rages fiercely, but eighteenth-century convention steps in.
2. Others of Goethe's works which have stood the test of time include: Clavigo, Egmont, Stella, Iphigenia in Tauris and Torquato Tasso. (Web site)

Duty

1. Achilles prays Iphigenia to fly with him, but she is constant to her idea of duty, and bids him a pathetic farewell.

House

1. And in addition to Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia, these old sins still hang over the house.

Ghost

1. Within the novel, the ghost of Iphigenia tells Achilles that all the poets lied; she did not die willingly, and nor was a hind sent to take her place. (Web site)

Women

1. Thus, Iphigenia sees her death as saving hundreds of women.

Chorus

1. Iphigenia enters and discusses her sad life with the chorus, composed of captive Greek maidens, attendants of Iphigenia. (Web site)
2. IPHIGENIA and the CHORUS enter from the temple.

Diana

1. But Iphigenia took in her hands the sacred image of Diana, and went out to tell him that the rites must be delayed. (Web site)

Sparta

1. He married Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndarus, king of Sparta, by whom he had three daughters Chrysothemis, Iphigenia and Electra, and one son Orestes.

Love

1. As Iphigenia sleeps in a grove by the sea, a noble, but coarse and unlettered Cypriot youth, Cymon, seeing Iphigenia's beauty, falls in love with her.

Sympathy

1. Iphigenia deserves sympathy but not her mother. (Web site)

Tomb

1. IPHIGENIA The altar of the goddess, Zeus's daughter, will be my tomb. (Web site)
2. Iphigenia By no means, for I shall have no tomb heaped over me. (Web site)

Message

1. Iphigenia then recites the letter to Pylades so that, if it is lost, he can still relay the message. (Web site)

Plot

1. Its plot turns on an escape from alien captivity whose details are very similar to the escape in Iphigenia in Tauris. (Web site)

Plotting

1. She has also been plotting to kill Agamemnon ever since Iphigenia’s death. (Web site)

Captives

1. Iphigenia determines to save at least one of the two captives, though because Thoas demands blood, she knows both cannot be spared.
2. The captives are brought to Iphigenia and a tense exchange ensues -- neither sibling knows the identity of the other at first. (Web site)

Fleet

1. To obtain favorable winds for the fleet against Troy, he sacrificed Iphigenia to Artemis, incurring Clytemnestra's hatred.

Set Sail

1. The seer Calchas proclaimed that Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, must be sacrificed before the fleet could set sail. (Web site)
2. So, in the end, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis, and then set sail for Troy, again. (Web site)

Dear

1. IPHIGENIA To my dear wish from Argos art thou come.

Letter

1. Thus Iphigenia is revealed to Orestes by the sending of the letter; but another act of recognition is required to make Orestes known to Iphigenia. (Web site)
2. Agamemnon fools Clytemnestra into bringing Iphigenia to Aulis by sending a letter to Clytemnestra telling her that Iphigenia will be married to Achilles.
3. Iphigenia then offers to release Orestes if he will carry home a letter from her to Greece.

Messengers

1. At last Agamemnon consented, and messengers were sent to Mycenæ to bring Iphigenia to Aulis.
2. Iphigenia accordingly accompanied the messengers to the Greek camp at Aulis.

Sophocles

1. Sophocles uses such details to add an aura of supernatural mystery, as in the sacrifice of Iphigenia and the incest of Oedipus and Jocasta. (Web site)
2. Such is that in the Oedipus of Sophocles, and in the Iphigenia; for it was natural that Iphigenia should wish to dispatch a letter. (Web site)

Categories

1. Sacrifice
2. People > Men > Kings > Agamemnon
3. Orestes
4. Mythology > Greek Mythology > Greek Mythological People > Clytemnestra
5. Religion > Gods > Zeus > Artemis

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