Aulis : landlocked harbour on the east coast of Boeotia from where the Greek fleet sailed to Troy, after Agamemnon killed his daughter Iphigenia as sacrifice the gods to break a calm & allow the armada to depart.
... departure in the harbour of Aulis, the winds stopped blowing, and the ships could not move forward. It was suggested to Agamemnon to sacrifice his elder daughter, beautiful Iphigenia, but Agamemnon refused.The troops, however, revolted, and so Odysseus prepared a plan, according to which a message was sent to the Palace at Mycenae. The message was that Iphigenia should go over to Aulis with her mother, Cl... Clytemnestra (who was the sister of Helen), where Iphigenia could be married to Achilles. Tempted by this message, the mother and the daughter reached Aulis where everything was got ready for the sacrifice of Iphigenia. The atmosphere was charged with greatest tension. However, as the Priest raised the knife, the Goddess Artemis bore Iphigenia to Tauris where she became a Priestess in the temple of Artemis... Artemis. A doe was sacrificed instead to the delight of the troops. Wind immediately filled the sails of the ships, and the Greek fleet sailed out of Aulis on its way to Troy. The most powerful tribe that led the Greek army was that of Achaeans. Because of their leadership, all the Greeks engaged in the Siege of Troy came to be called Achaeans. The Siege of Troy proved Page 18 to be unyielding ...
... in their bosoms. Ever since Zeus Cronion turned in our will towards the waters, Scourged by the heavens in my dearest, wronged by men and their clamours, Griefs untold I have borne in Argos and Aulis and Troas, Yoked to this sacred toil of the Greeks for their children and country, Bound by the gods to a task that is heavy, a load that is bitter. Seeing the faces of foes in the mask of friends ...
... Agamemnon, Menelaus' brother and king of Mycenae, had left for Troy. We are told in one of Aeschilus's play "Agamemnon” of the tragic story of Agamemnon's daughter, Iphigenia, who was to be sacrificed at Aulis, a place of strong winds and dangerous tides, where the Greek fleet met. Only her death, it was said could ensure a safe crossing. For nine years victory had wavered, now to this side now to ...
... Summary of the Iliad At the opening of the poem, the Greeks have already besieged Troy for nine years in vain; they are despondent, homesick, and decimated with disease. They had been delayed at Aulis by sickness and a windless sea; and Agamemnon had embittered Clytemnestra, and prepared his own fate, by sacrificing their daughter Iphegenia for a breeze. On the way up the coast, the Greeks had stopped ...
... time'] occur as they do in R.E.s V and VI and P.E.s II and VII." Bhandarkar adds: "In one instance even the engraver, we find, confounded these two senses of the word. Thus in R.E. I, the Dh[auli] and Jaug[uda] versions have parvatasi before lekhāpita in the very first line, and one is therefore inclined to translate the latter by 'caused to be engraved' instead of merely 'caused to be written' ...
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