Iphigenia was Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's daughter who was sacrificed to appease Artemis. She was the sister of Electra and Orestes. In some stories, she was sacrificed, and …in others, it was said that Artemis brought her to the land of the Taurians, where she was eventually rescued by her brother, Orestes, and his friend Pylades. ( Full Answer )
Briefly: She was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Agamemnon sacrificed her to ensure safe passage for him and his crew to Troy. In some myths, this resulted in Clyt…emnestra's revenge by killing her husband. ( Full Answer )
There is not a play called "Iphihenia in Trachis" you might beconfusing Women of Trachis anAthenian tragedy by Sophocles with Iphigenia inTauris a drama by the playwri…ght Euripides. ( Full Answer )
Iphigenia never actually married. The ploy to bring her to her sacrifice was a marriage to the hero Achilles, but she was not informed of the trap until the night she was burn…ed. ( Full Answer )
Iphigenia was sacrificed in the Boeotianharbor of Aulis, opposite the island of Euboea, or as others say,was saved at the last moment by Artemis, who substituted for her adeer… or a bull at the altar, and transported her to Tauris whereshe later, having met her brother Orestes, was brought by him backhome. ( Full Answer )
Iphigenia was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clymnestra. Agamemnon is the high king of the Greeks and ruled over Mycenae. A prophecy said that in order for the boats to sail sa…fely to Troy, Iphigenia must be sacrficed. So Agamemnon came up with the scheme that Iphigenia was to marry Achilles, a great hero, but at the "marriage", she sacrificed her instead. There are alternate endings on how Artemis took pity on Iphigenia and replaced her with a deer at the last minute, and then made Iphigenia her priestess or that Pan sacrificed himself instead of Iphigenia. ( Full Answer )
There is no Iphigenia in Trachis; you might mean Womenof Trachis by Sophocles. Or: Iphigenia in Tauris (Ancient Greek: ἸÏιγÎνεια á¼…½ ΤαÏÏοιÏ, Iphigeneia enTaurois ) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, writtenbetween 414 BC and 412 BC. It has much in common with another ofEuripides's plays, Helen , as well as the lost play Andromeda , and is often described as a romance, amelodrama, a tragi-comedy or an escape play. ( Full Answer )