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Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι (Iphigenia in Aulis)

by Εὐριπίδης Euripides

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Euripides stages the myth of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter Iphigenia at Aulis so the Greek fleet can sail for Troy.

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Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι (Iphigenia in Aulis)

Iphigenia in Aulis or Iphigenia at Aulis is the last of the extant works by the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced the following year in a trilogy with The Bacchae and Alcmaeon in Corinth by his son or nephew, Euripides the Younger, and won first place at the City Dionysia in Athens.