Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
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Iphigenia in Aulis is a tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes Agamemnon’s agonizing decision to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to secure favorable winds for the Greek fleet sailing to Troy.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T870178 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) Context triple: [Odysseus, literaryWork, Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)]
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Trojan Women (Euripides)
Trojan Women is a tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and despair of the women of Troy in the aftermath of the city's destruction in the Trojan War.
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B.
Hecuba (Euripides)
Hecuba (Euripides) is a Greek tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and vengeance of the Trojan queen Hecuba after the fall of Troy.
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C.
Philoctetes (Sophocles)
Philoctetes (Sophocles) is a classical Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes the moral and psychological conflict surrounding the marooned archer Philoctetes during the final phase of the Trojan War.
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D.
Agamemnon
Agamemnon is the legendary king of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War in Greek mythology.
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E.
Bacchae
Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the devastating consequences of resisting his cult.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) Target entity description: Iphigenia in Aulis is a tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes Agamemnon’s agonizing decision to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to secure favorable winds for the Greek fleet sailing to Troy.
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A.
Trojan Women (Euripides)
Trojan Women is a tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and despair of the women of Troy in the aftermath of the city's destruction in the Trojan War.
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B.
Hecuba (Euripides)
Hecuba (Euripides) is a Greek tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and vengeance of the Trojan queen Hecuba after the fall of Troy.
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C.
Philoctetes (Sophocles)
Philoctetes (Sophocles) is a classical Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes the moral and psychological conflict surrounding the marooned archer Philoctetes during the final phase of the Trojan War.
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D.
Agamemnon
Agamemnon is the legendary king of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War in Greek mythology.
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E.
Bacchae
Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the devastating consequences of resisting his cult.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek tragedy
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play ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Artemis ⓘ |
| associatedLocation | Greek camp at Aulis ⓘ |
| author | Euripides ⓘ |
| basedOn | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
conflict between family loyalty and public duty
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fate and divine will ⓘ militarism and honor ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Athenian wartime experience in the late 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| dramaticConflict |
Agamemnon versus Clytemnestra over Iphigenia’s fate
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Agamemnon versus Menelaus over the necessity of the sacrifice ⓘ Iphigenia’s personal survival versus Greek military success ⓘ |
| dramaticDevice |
agon or formal debate scenes
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use of messenger speeches ⓘ |
| dramaticStructure | prologue, parodos, episodes, stasima, exodos ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Achilles
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Agamemnon ⓘ Chorus of women of Chalcis ⓘ Clytemnestra ⓘ Iphigenia ⓘ Menelaus ⓘ |
| genre | tragedy ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeEnding |
version where Artemis rescues Iphigenia
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version where Iphigenia is actually sacrificed ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Iphigénie en Aulide
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Mourning Becomes Electra ⓘ
surface form:
Eugene O’Neill’s play Mourning Becomes Electra
later adaptations of the Iphigenia myth ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryForm | verse drama ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Classical Athens ⓘ |
| mythologicalContext | Trojan War ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
Agamemnon’s moral dilemma
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Iphigenia’s transformation from victim to willing sacrifice in some versions ⓘ |
| partOf |
Euripides
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surface form:
Euripidean corpus
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| plotSummary |
Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Agamemnon is ordered to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to obtain favorable winds for the Greek fleet to sail to Troy
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| relatedMyth |
House of Atreus myth cycle
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surface form:
House of Atreus
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| relatedWork |
Iphigenia in Tauris
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surface form:
Iphigenia among the Taurians
Oresteia ⓘ
surface form:
The Oresteia
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| setting | Aulis ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | extant play ⓘ |
| theme |
manipulation and deceit
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patriarchal power and female suffering ⓘ role of the gods in human affairs ⓘ |
| timeOfAction | on the eve of the Greek expedition to Troy ⓘ |
| tradition | Attic tragedy ⓘ |
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Subject: Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) Description of subject: Iphigenia in Aulis is a tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes Agamemnon’s agonizing decision to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to secure favorable winds for the Greek fleet sailing to Troy.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Iphigenia
this entity surface form:
Iphigenia in Aulis
this entity surface form:
Iphigenia in Aulis
this entity surface form:
Iphigénie en Aulide
Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
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plotSummary
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Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Iphigenia in Aulis
this entity surface form:
Agamemnon is ordered to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to obtain favorable winds for the Greek fleet to sail to Troy
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Iphigenia at Aulis
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Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis
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Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis
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Agamemnon’s sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis
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Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis
this entity surface form:
Iphigenia in Aulis