He sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia.
The sacrifice of Iphigeneia whom King Agamemnon offered to her for the passage of the Greek fleet to Troy; for this Artemis stood against the Greeks, she was beaten by Hera in an angry contest of the gods.
his daugher, Iphigenia.
Iphigeneia, which was the girl's name, was either saved by the goddess and made into the immortal Hecate - or Orsilokhia, or made her a her priestess in Tauroi; either a stag or a bull replaced Iphigeneia as the sacrifice to Artemis.
Before leaving for the Trojan War, Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, was compelled to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis, who had calmed the winds and delayed the Greek fleet's departure. This act was meant to ensure favorable sailing conditions for the Greek forces. Additionally, he gathered his army and allies, uniting various Greek city-states under his command to launch the expedition against Troy.
Clytemnestra kills Agamemnon in revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia and his betrayal of their marriage by bringing back a concubine from the Trojan War.
Aulis an ancient Greek town in Boeotia and traditionally the port from which the Greek army set sail for the Trojan War. King Agamemnon of Mycenae sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to appease her.
The sacrifice of Iphigeneia whom King Agamemnon offered to her for the passage of the Greek fleet to Troy; for this Artemis stood against the Greeks, she was beaten by Hera in an angry contest of the gods.
his daugher, Iphigenia.
Iphigeneia, which was the girl's name, was either saved by the goddess and made into the immortal Hecate - or Orsilokhia, or made her a her priestess in Tauroi; either a stag or a bull replaced Iphigeneia as the sacrifice to Artemis.
Before leaving for the Trojan War, Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, was compelled to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis, who had calmed the winds and delayed the Greek fleet's departure. This act was meant to ensure favorable sailing conditions for the Greek forces. Additionally, he gathered his army and allies, uniting various Greek city-states under his command to launch the expedition against Troy.
I believe you are talking about Agamemnon, a warrior in the Trojan war. One day he shot a deer in a sacred field and boasted that he was a better hunter than Artemis, the goddess of the Hunt. She was furious and commanded the winds to continue to blow Agamemnon's ships back to the shore so he could not get to Troy. An oracle told him to appease Artemis and sail to Troy, he had to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia. He tricked his wife, Clytemnestra, into bringing Iphigenia over by saying she was to be married to Achilles. When she came over, her father put her on the altar. Some accounts say she was killed. However, other accounts say before she could be killed, Artemis replaced her with a deer. There are then two accounts of what happened to Iphigenia then. The most popular is that she became a priestess to Artemis. The other is she was transformed into the goddess Hecate. Either way, Agamemnon got to Troy.
Clytemnestra kills Agamemnon in revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia and his betrayal of their marriage by bringing back a concubine from the Trojan War.
Artemis had a very small part in the Trojan War. Unlike the other gods, she had no loyalties to either side before the war. However, since her brother Apollo supported the Trojans, she took Troy's side. This won her the wrath of Hera, who already hated the huntress because Zeus favored Artemis more than any of Hera's children. In the Iliad book 21, Hera boxed Artemis' ears with the girl's own hunting bow. Artemis then fled, with many tears running down her face, to her father Zeus. She left her bow and arrows behind her, leaving her mother Leto to gather them up. Artemis also delayed the warrior Agamemnon and his forces from getting to Troy. Right before Agamemnon was supposed to sail to Troy, he shot one of Artemis' sacred stags in a grove and boasted that he was a better hunter than the goddess Artemis herself. In revenge, Artemis commanded the winds to keep blowing Agamemnon's ships back to shore. Agamemnon then asked an oracle or a seer what to do to appease the god that was preventing his arrival to Troy. The oracle or seer told him that the only way to appease Artemis, the goddess he had angered, was to sacrifice his oldest daughter, Iphigenia, to the goddess. Agamemnon tricked his wife Clytemnestra into sending Iphigenia to him by saying that Iphigenia was going to be married to Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior. When Iphigenia arrived, Agamemnon placed her on the sacrificial alter. Some accounts say that Iphigenia was sacrificed to Artemis, but others say that Artemis replaced her with a white deer at the last moment and took her to an island where the goddess made Iphigenia her priestess. Some stories even say that Iphigenia was transformed into Hecate, the goddess of magic and the dark side of the moon.
No, on the contrary. At the start of the Trojan War, when the Greek fleet had gathered at Aulis, Artemis stopped all winds, so the fleet could not sail. Agamemnon, the leader of the fleet, prepared to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia, to make Artemis change her mind. Before the sacrifice was carried through, Artemis took the girl away and made her a priestess in Artemis' temple on another Island, Aulis.
When Agamemnon had assembled the Greek fleet at Aulis, Artemis becalmed the sea, preventing the Greeks from sailing for Troy. The seer Kalkhas declared that the goddess was wrathful with Agamemnon and demanded the sacrifice of his eldest daughter Iphigeneia. In the Iliad, the Trojan hero Aineias was wounded in battle by Diomedes. Apollon lifted him up from the conflict and brought him to his temple where Artemis and Leto tended his wounds. After the death of Patroklos, Akhilleus' returned to the war, and Zeus again allowed the gods to return to Troy in support of their favourites. The divine factions then broke out into open conflict: Artemis stood against Hera and was beaten by the goddess.
Iphigenia was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Agamemnon was the brother of Menelaus, the King of Sparta, and was unable to sail to Troy until he sacrificed Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis, since he had slain one of her woodland creatures. After sacrificing his daughter, Agamemnon was able to travel to- and fight in- the Trojan war.The death of Iphigenia plays a significant role following the Trojan war, as Clytemnestra was obviously furious at her husband for his actions. It was said that Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon upon his return, and considered this an 'execution' rather than a murder. This tale can be found in the play Agamemnon, by Aeschylus.
According to Aeschylus' "Agamemenon" (part of the Oresteia), Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra (his "war booty"), only to be slain in his own home by his wife, Clytaemnestra, who is heartbroken and furious over the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphegenia.