Aulis

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Definition: The Greek forces led by Agamemnon, set out for Troy but mistakenly landed in Teuthrania, land of King Telephis, son of Hercules. Telephus set them in the right direction. For their second voyage, they set out from the port of Aulis where Agamemnon made his fateful sacrifice to Artemis of his daughter Iphigenia.

The seer Calchas told Agamemnon that Artemis was angry and that the only way he would be able to appease her was to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. With the conniving of Odysseus and perhaps Diomedes, Agamemnon arranged to have Clytemnestra bring Iphigenia to Aulis, ostensibly to marry Achilles, but in reality to be sacrificed for the war effort.

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House of Atreus
Agamemnon came from the cursed House of Atreus.

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