  iphigenia (; , iphigeneia) is a daughter of agamemnon and clytemnestra in greek mythology,antoninus liberalis, metamorphoses 27 (online text) iphigenia is called a daughter of theseus and helen, raised by clytemnestra. whom agamemnon is commanded to kill as a sacrifice to allow his ships to sail to troy. in attic accounts,pausanias, 2.21.6; a scholium on aristophanes' lysistrata l.645, asserts that it was not at aulis but at brauron in attica that she was apparently sacrificed (noted in karl kerenyi, the heroes of the greeks 1959:238 and note 599). her name means "strong-born", "born to strength", or "she who causes the birth of strong offspring."henry george liddell and robert scott, a greek-english lexicon, s.v. "iphigenia" and rush rehm, the play of space (2002, 188). karl kerenyi, aware of iphigenia's obscure pre-history as an autonomous goddess rather than a mere marriageable girl in the house of agamemnon, renders her name "she who governs births mightily" (kerenyi 1959:331). ==post-homeric greek myth==  the achaean (greek) fleet was preparing to go to war against troy and had amassed in aulis. while there, agamemnon, the leader of the expedition, killed a deer in a grove sacred to the goddess artemis. she punished him by becalming the winds so that the fleet could not sail. the seer calchas revealed that in order to appease artemis, agamemnon must sacrifice his eldest daughter, iphigenia. agamemnon at first refused, but, under pressure from the other commanders eventually agreed."iphigenia", mortal women of the trojan war, stanford university odysseus and diomedes are sent to bring iphigenia, under the pretext of a marriage to achilles. she and her mother, clytemnestra, arrive in aulis only to discover it was a ruse. achilles is incensed that his name was used. his efforts to intervene are unsuccessful. whether or not she was actually sacrificed depends on the source. according to hyginus' fabulae, iphigenia was sacrificed. some sources claim that iphigenia was taken by artemis to tauris in crimea on the moment of the sacrifice, and that the goddess left a deer"when his wife had sent iphigenia, agamemnon placed her on the altar and
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