Archaeology Odyssey

Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, l. 220.

Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, ll. 1246–1247.

In both Aeschylus’s Agamemnon and Sophocles’s Electra, Iphigenia is sacrificed without any last-minute reprieve. Indeed, much of Agamemnon tells of the vengeance wrought by Clytemnestra upon her husband for the death of their child.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, ll. 20–22.

Encyclopedia Judaica, “Akedah.”

Yalkut, Deuteronomy 26, No. 938; Babylonian Talmud, Gitin 57b.

Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, ll. 1547–1550.

Euripides has some choice words for seers: “What kind of man is a seer? A man who tells a few truths and many lies—and that is when things are going well for him” (Iphigenia at Aulis, ll. 956–958).

Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, ll. 1395 and 1555 ff.