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The sacrifice of Iphigenia by the Illioupersis Painter

Iphigeneia (Eng. /ɪfədʒə'naɪə/ Ἰφιγένεια, also Iphigenia) was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology. Iphigeneia is sometimes called a daughter of Theseus and Helen raised by Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... 112 Iphigenia is a fairly large and exceedingly dark Main belt asteroid. ... 253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. ... The sacrifice of Iphigenia. ... The sacrifice of Iphigenia. ... The so-called Mask of Agamemnon. Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae. ... Murder of Agamemnon, Painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ... Theseus (Greek ) was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra, and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, with whom Aethra lay in one night. ... Helen. ...

Greek myth

Artemis punished Agamemnon after he killed a sacred deer in a sacred grove and boasted he was a better hunter. On his way to Troy to participate in the Trojan War, Agamemnon's ships were suddenly motionless as Artemis stopped the wind in Aulis. A soothsayer named Calchas revealed an oracle that the only way to appease Artemis was to sacrifice Iphigeneia to Artemis. According to some versions he did so, but other sources claim that Iphigenia was taken by Artemis to Tauris in Crimea to prepare others for sacrifice, and that the goddess left a deer or a goat (the god Pan transformed) in her place. Hesiod called her Iphimedeia (Ἰφιμέδεια) in the Catalogue of Women and told she became the goddess Hecate. Antoninus Liberalis said that Iphigeneia was transported to the island of Leuke, where she was wedded to Achilles under the name of Orsilochia. The Diana of Versailles, a Roman copy of a sculpture by Leochares (Louvre Museum) In Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: (nominative) , (genitive) ) was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. ... Troy or Ilion, see Troy (disambiguation) and Ilion (disambiguation). ... The fall of Troy, by Johann Georg Trautmann (1713–1769). ... In Greek mythology, Aulis was a daughter of King Ogyges and Thebe. ... In Greek mythology, Kalchas Thestórides (son of Thestor), or Calchas (brazen) for short, a loyal Argive, was a powerful seer, a gift of Apollo: as an augur, Calchas had no rival in the camp (Iliad i, E.V. Rieu translation) Calchas prophesized that in order to gain a favourable... Consulting the Oracle by John William Waterhouse, showing eight priestesses in a temple of prophecy An oracle is a person or persons considered to be the source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. ... Tauris is a peninsula on the Black Sea. ... Motto: Процветание в единстве - Prosperity in unity Anthem: Нивы и горы твои волшебны, Родина - Your fields and mounts are wonderful, Motherland Location of Crimea (red) on the map of Ukraine. ... Pan (Greek , genitive ) is the Greek god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music: paein means to pasture. ... Roman bronze bust, the so-called Pseudo-Seneca, now identified by some as possibly Hesiod Hesiod (Hesiodos, ) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BC. Hesiod and Homer, with whom Hesiod is often paired, have been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived... For other uses, see Hecate (disambiguation). ... Antoninus Liberalis, Greek grammarian, probably flourished about AD 150. ... The Wrath of Achilles, by François-Léon Benouville (1821–1859) (Musée Fabre) In Greek mythology, Achilles (also Akhilleus or Achilleus) (Ancient Greek: ) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest warrior of Homers Iliad, which takes for its theme, not the War...

Iphigenie (1862) by Anselm Feuerbach

According to Euripides, Iphigeneia factors into the story of her brother, Orestes. In order to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes for killing his mother Clytemnestra and her lover, he is ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris (now the Crimea), carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and bring it to Athens. He repairs to Tauris with Pylades, son of Strophius and intimate friend of Orestes, and the pair are at once imprisoned by the Tauri, among whom the custom is to sacrifice all Greek strangers to Artemis. The priestess of Artemis, whose duty it is to perform the sacrifice, is his sister Iphigeneia. She offers to release Orestes if he will carry home a letter from her to Greece; he refuses to go, but bids Pylades take the letter while he himself will stay and be slain. After a conflict of mutual affection, Pylades at last yields, but the letter brings about a recognition between brother and sister, and all three escape together, carrying with them the image of Artemis. After their return to Greece, Orestes takes possession of his father's kingdom of Mycenae and Argos and Iphigeneia leaves the image in the temple of Artemis in Brauron, Attica, where she remains as priestess of Artemis Brauronia. According to the Spartans, the image of Artemis was transported by them to Laconia, where the goddess was worshipped as Artemis Orthia. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1581x2261, 1366 KB) ÄŒesky | Deutsch | English | Ελληνικά | Español | فارسی | Français | עברית | Indonesian | Italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | Magyar | Nederlands | Polski | Português | RomânÇŽ | Русский | Slovenščina | Српски | Sunda | 简体中文 | 正體中文 | Türkçe | Русский | Українська +/- File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1581x2261, 1366 KB) ÄŒesky | Deutsch | English | Ελληνικά | Español | فارسی | Français | עברית | Indonesian | Italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | Magyar | Nederlands | Polski | Português | RomânÇŽ | Русский | Slovenščina | Српски | Sunda | 简体中文 | 正體中文 | Türkçe | Русский | Українська +/- File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other... Anselm Feuerbach (September 12, 1829—January 4, 1880), German painter, born at Speyer, the son of a well-known archaeologist, was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. ... A statue of Euripides Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (c. ... The Remorse of Orestes by William-Adolphe Bouguereau For other uses, see Orestes (disambiguation). ... This article is about the characters from Greek myth. ... For other uses, see Apollo (disambiguation). ... Pylades and Orestes by Francois Bouchot In Greek mythology, Pylades is the son of King Strophius of Phocis and is mostly known for his strong friendship with Orestes. ... In Greek mythology, Strophius was a King of Phocis and father of Pylades. ... The Cimmerians (Greek: , Kimmerioi) were ancient equestrian nomads who, according to Herodotus, originally inhabited the region north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea, in what is now Russia and Ukraine, in the 8th and 7th century BC. Assyrian records, however, first place them in the region of Azerbaijan in... A clay tablet with writing in Linear B from Mycenae. ... Coordinates 37°37′ N 22°43′ E Country Greece Periphery Peloponnese Prefecture Argolis Province Argos Population 29,505 Area 5. ... Brauron is an early sanctuary site of Attica. ... Attica (in Greek: Αττική, Attike; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a periphery (subdivision) in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. ... Laconia (; see also List of traditional Greek place names), also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. ... Orientation map for the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia was one of the most important religious sites in the Greek city of Sparta[1]. // The Sanctuary The cult of Orthia was common in the four villages originally constituting Sparta: Limnai, Pitana, Kynosoura and Mesoa. ...

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Iphianassa

Iphianassa (Ἰφιάνασσα), one of Agamemnon's three daughters in Homer's Iliad (Book 9, lines 145 and 287) is sometimes confused with Iphigeneia. Homer makes no direct mention to Iphigeneia's sacrifice and the name Iphianassa may be simply an older variant of the name Iphigeneia. Most scholars nevertheless agree that Iphianassa and Iphigeneia, despite the likeness of their names, probably were quite different characters. The so-called Mask of Agamemnon. Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae. ... Homer (Greek: , ) was an early Greek poet and aoidos (rhapsode) traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ... It has been suggested that Deception of Zeus be merged into this article or section. ...

Cymon and Iphigenia

Cymon and Iphigeneia c. 1884 by Frederic Leighton

The episode of Iphigeneia and Cymon that inspired such painters as Benjamin West (1773), John Everett Millais (1848) and Frederic Leighton (1884) is not really a Greek myth, but a novella taken from Boccaccio's Decameron, developed later by the poet and dramatist John Dryden. Frederic Leighton (British, 1830-1896) Cymon and Iphigenia File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Frederic Leighton (British, 1830-1896) Cymon and Iphigenia File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton Flaming June Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (3 December 1830–25 January 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. ... Self Portrait of Benjamin West, ca. ... Sir John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (June 8, 1829 – August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator who was one of founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. ... Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (December 31, 1830 - January 25, 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. ... Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poetry in the vernacular. ... Illustration from a copy of The Decameron, ca. ... John Dryden John Dryden (August 19 {August 9 O.S.}, 1631 - May 12 {May 1 O.S.}, 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles...

The tale intended to demonstrate the power of love. As Iphigeneia sleeps in a grove by the sea, a noble but coarse and unlettered Cypriot youth, Cymon, seeing Iphigeneia's beauty, falls in love with her and, by the power of love, becomes an educated and polished courtier.

A Modern Viewpoint

In Eric Shanower's Age of Bronze vol. 2, "Sacrifice", (ISBN 1-58240-399-6), the substitution of a deer for Iphigeneia was a pious lie invented by Odysseus to comfort the grieving Clytemnestra. It did not work: she angrily cursed the whole Achaean army, wishing they would all die in the war, the violent men who had been clamoring for the blood of her daughter. Age of Bronze issue 12 cover art Eric James Shanower (b. ... Age of Bronze is a comic book series by writer/artist Eric Shanower which began publication by Image Comics in the late 1990s. ... Head of Odysseus from a Greek 2nd century BC marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga Odysseus or Ulysses (Greek Odysseys; Latin: Ulixes or, less commonly, Ulysses), pronounced , is the main hero in Homers epic poem, the Odyssey, and plays a key...

Ipigeneia is also the middle name of the fictional character Calliope "Callie" O'Malley on the show Grey's Anatomy. This was made known on the episode "Wishin' and Hopin'".

Some modern sources

• Bonnard, A. Iphigénie à Aulis. Tragique et Poesie. Museum Helveticum, Basel, v. 2, p. 87-107, 1945.
• Croisille, J.-M. Le sacrifice d’Iphigénie dans l’art romain et la littérature latine. Latomus, Brussels, v. 22, p. 209-225, 1963.
• Decharme, P. "Iphigenia." In: c. d'Aremberg, and E Saglio, Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines, v. 3 (1ère partie), p. 570-572, (1877-1919).
• Jouan, F. "Le Rassemblement d’Aulis et le Sacrifice d´Iphigénie." In: _______, Euripide et les Légendes des Chants Cypriens. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, pp 259-298, 1966.
• Kahil, L. "Le sacrifice d’Iphigénie." In: 'Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome'. Antiquité, Rome, v. 103, p. 183-196, 1991.
• Kjellberg, L. "Iphigeneia." In: A.F. PAULY and G. Wissowa Real-Encyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, v. 9, p. 2588-2622, 1916.
• Lloyd-Jones, H. '"Artemis and Iphigeneia" Journal of Hellenic Studies 103 (1983) pp 87-102.

Peck, Harry. "Iphigeneia.' In: Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1898.

• Séchen, L. "Le Sacrifice d’Iphigénie" Révue des Études Grecques, Paris, pp 368-426, 1931.
• Shanower, E. Age of Bronze: Sacrifice, 2005.
• West, M.L. The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.

Some adaptations of the Iphigeneia story

• Iphigeneia at Aulis, play by Euripides.

• Iphigénie en Aulide, play by Jean Racine.
• Iphigénie en Aulide, opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
• Iphigenia, film by Michael Cacoyannis.
• The Songs of the Kings, novel by Barry Unsworth.
• Iphigenia at Aulis, play by Ellen McLaughlin (Part of Iphigenia and Other Daughters)
• Ifigeneia, a rewrite of the play by Finn Iunker
• Iphigenia at Aulis, the first part of The Greeks trilogy, adapted and directed by John Barton for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980.

• Iphigeneia in Tauris, play by Euripides.

• Iphigenie auf Tauris, play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• Iphigénie en Tauride, opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
• Iphigenia at Tauris, play by Ellen McLaughlin (Part of Iphigenia and Other Daughters)

• Iphigenia in Brooklyn, a solo cantata by P. D. Q. Bach.(This version of the story may be less tragic than others.)
• Iphigénie, ballet by Charles le Picq.
• Iphigenia, play by Samuel Coster.
• Iphigenia 2.0, modern adaptation of the play, by Charles L. Mee
• Iphigenia in Orem, part of Bash: Latter-Day Plays, a collection of three plays by Neil LaBute.

Iphigeneia at Aulis, written in 410 BC, is the last surviving work of the playwright Euripides. ... A statue of Euripides Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (c. ... Jean Racine. ... The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia by Tiepolo Iphigénie en Aulide (Iphigeneia in Aulis) is an opera by Gluck, the first work he wrote for the Paris stage. ... Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 - November 15, 1787) was a German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era, particularly remembered for Orfeo ed Euridice. ... Iphigenia is a 1977 Greek film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the Greek myth of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who was ordered by the goddess Artemis to be sacrificed. ... Michael Cacoyannis (born June 11, 1922 in Limassol, Cyprus, under the name Mikhalis Kakogiannis) is a filmmaker. ... Barry Unsworth (born 1930) is a British novelist who is known for novels with historical themes. ... Ellen McLaughlin is an American playwright and actor for stage and film. ... Finn Iunker (1969- ) is a Norwegian playwright born in Arendal. ... Prof. ... Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. ... Iphigeneia in Tauris (in Greek: ) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written sometime between 414 BC and 412 BC. It bears much in common with another of Euripides plays, Helen, and is often described as a romance, a melodrama, or an escape play. ... A statue of Euripides Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (c. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? (pronounced [gø tÉ™]) (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and he conducted his civic services as a cabinet minister of Weimar. ...  , IPA: , (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, theorist, humanist, scientist, and painter. ... Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigeneia in Tauris) is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts. ... Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 - November 15, 1787) was a German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era, particularly remembered for Orfeo ed Euridice. ... Ellen McLaughlin is an American playwright and actor for stage and film. ... A cantata (Italian, sung) is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment and generally containing more than one movement. ... P. D. Q. Bach is a fictional composer invented by musical satirist Professor Peter Schickele. ... Charles le Picq (b 1744 - d 1806), influential French dancer and choreographer, was former pupil of Jean Georges Noverre (1727-1810), one of the creators of modern ballet (ballet daction). ... Neil LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and playwright. ...

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• Iphigénie de Jean Racine : Analysis, Plot overview (in French)
• contemporary interpretation of Gluck by Australian Barrie Kosky at Berlin's Komische Oper, May 1 2007