Greece

Iphigenia at Aulis

Iphigeneia he en Aulidi

Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter to secure favorable winds for Troy, and Euripides's final play turns her killing into an indictment of a military and political culture that treats a child's life as expendable for glory.

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