Agamemnon had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in order for the Greeks to have a safe journey to Troy
Agamemnon is required to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in order to make it safely to Troy. He does so unwillingly but since it is for the good of his whole army he must. This sacrifice leads to his murder by his wife upon his return from Troy twenty years later.
In Greek mythology, Iphigenia was a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Argos. Agamemnon offends the goddess Artemis by killing her deer. Artemis retaliates by interfering with the wind so that Agamemnon can't sail. A seer tells Agamemnon that he must sacrifice his daughter.
Agamemnon.
Begs Agamemnon, and compares him self to Agamemnon's father.
No, Agamemnon was the very mortal King of Mycenae.
Agamemnon had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in order for the Greeks to have a safe journey to Troy
Agamemnon is required to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in order to make it safely to Troy. He does so unwillingly but since it is for the good of his whole army he must. This sacrifice leads to his murder by his wife upon his return from Troy twenty years later.
his daugher, Iphigenia.
He sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia.
It was Agamemnon who finally decided to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia. He did not need to be informed.
He killed his daughter Iphigenia as a sacrifice to the goddess Artemis whom he had angered by an act of arrogance.
He sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia.
In one of the myths, it was said that Iphigenia was sacrificed to the goddess Artemis to win back her favor.
His daughter Iphigenia to gain a favourable sailing wind.
In Greek mythology, Iphigenia was a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Argos. Agamemnon offends the goddess Artemis by killing her deer. Artemis retaliates by interfering with the wind so that Agamemnon can't sail. A seer tells Agamemnon that he must sacrifice his daughter.
Agamemnon.
Agamemnon gathered the reluctant Greek forces to sail for Troy. Preparing to depart from Aulis, which was a port in Boeotia, Agamemnon's army incurred the wrath of the goddess Artemis. There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis's equal in hunting. Misfortunes, including a plague and a lack of wind, prevented the army from sailing. Finally, the prophet Calchas announced that the wrath of the goddess could only be propitiated by the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia. Classical dramatizations differ on how willing either father or daughter were to this fate, some include such trickery as claiming she was to be married to Achilles, but Agamemnon did eventually sacrifice Iphigenia. Her death appeased Artemis, and the Greek army set out for Troy. Several alternatives to the human sacrifice have been presented in Greek mythology. Other sources, such as Iphigenia at Aulis, claim that Agamemnon was prepared to kill his daughter, but that Artemis accepted a deer in her place, and whisked her away to Taurus in Crimea. Hesiod said she became the goddess Hecate.