Paris runs off with Helen. Agamemnon/Menelaus prepare to attack Troy. Achean fleet is becalmed at Aulis. Agamemnon must sacrifice Iphigenia to Poseidon to get a fair wind. Artemis springs Iphigenia to be her priestess among the Scythians at Tauris. (That's Iphigenie en Aulide).
The Iliad happens. Agamemnon returns from Troy and is bumped off by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. Some time later Orestes, now adulkt, returns and bumps off C&A with or without help from Elektra (depends on version). Furies pursue Orestes.
Orestes goes walkabout and is shipwrecked with his mate Pylades, unsurprisingly, in Tauris. The custom of the Scvythians is to sacrifice foreigners to Artemis. Pylades escapes and rounds up the lads. Iphigenia recognisises long lost bro. Pylades and lads arrive in mick of time. All ends happily. (That's "Iphigenie en Tauride").
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Date: 2005-08-24 04:24 pm (UTC)Paris runs off with Helen. Agamemnon/Menelaus prepare to attack Troy. Achean fleet is becalmed at Aulis. Agamemnon must sacrifice Iphigenia to Poseidon to get a fair wind. Artemis springs Iphigenia to be her priestess among the Scythians at Tauris. (That's Iphigenie en Aulide).
The Iliad happens. Agamemnon returns from Troy and is bumped off by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. Some time later Orestes, now adulkt, returns and bumps off C&A with or without help from Elektra (depends on version). Furies pursue Orestes.
Orestes goes walkabout and is shipwrecked with his mate Pylades, unsurprisingly, in Tauris. The custom of the Scvythians is to sacrifice foreigners to Artemis. Pylades escapes and rounds up the lads. Iphigenia recognisises long lost bro. Pylades and lads arrive in mick of time. All ends happily. (That's "Iphigenie en Tauride").