Iphigeneia, Agamemnon's Daughter: A Study of Ancient Conceptions in Greek Myth and Literature Associated with the Atrides Book

	List of Abbreviations
	List of Illustrations
	List of Sketches
	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. 1	The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia at Aulis	1
I	The Background	3
1	Some Facts About the Cypria and the Illiad	3
2	The Gods Decide that Greece Shall Go to War with Troy	4
II	Aspects of the Iphigeneia Myth	6
1	Agamemnon Sacrifices his Daughter Iphigeneia to Artemis	6
2	Hesiod's Eoiai - Iphimede	12
3	What Do We Know About the Relationship Between Iphigeneia and Artemis?	15
4	The Enigmatic Figure of Iphigeneia	16
III	Aspects of the Sacrifice of Iphigeneia in the Plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides	17
1	Aeschylus' Agamemnon	17
2	Sophocles' Electra	20
3	Euripides' Iphigeneia et Aulis	22
4	The "Voluntary" Sacrifice of Iphigeneia	26
5	The Modern View on the Change in Iphigeneia's Attitude	30
6	Certain Comparisons between the Attitudes of the Three Dramatists to the Iphigeneia Myth	34
IV	The Sacrifice of Polyxena in Euripides' Hecuba	37
	Why Did the Greeks Sacrifice Polyxena?	37
	Notes	41
Pt. 2	Iphigeneia as Priestess in the Temple of the Taurian Artemis - Orestes	45
V	The Background	48
1	Greek Colonization on the Shores of the Black Sea	48
2	The Culture of the Taurians and Their Goddess Parthenos	48
3	The Cruel Customs Practised in the Tauric Chersonesus	49
4	A Discussion Concerning the Identification of Artemis as Parthenos	50
5	Two Aetiological Myths	52
6	A Discussion Concerning the Goddess Iphigeneia	54
VI	Iphigeneia as Priestess at the Tauric Temple of Artemis - Orestes in the Chersonesus	56
1	In Retrospect	56
2	Customs Connected with the Tauric Temple	58
3	Orestes Seeks Purification	60
4	The Wrongdoing of Pelops Falls upon the Atrides	64
5	Iphigeneia Leaves Taurica with Orestes and Pylades	65
6	The Iphigeneia Fresco - an Archaeological Discovery	66
VII	The Translation of the Xoanon	68
1	Cult Places Connected via the Myth to the Tauric Cult	68
a	Halae and Brauron	68
b	Sparta	69
c	Lemnos	72
d	Aricia	72
e	Castabala	74
f	Comana	74
2	Did Euripides Invent the Translation of the Xoanon?	76
VIII	Aspects of Greek Myth and Cult	78
1	Greek Myth in Contrast to Logos	78
2	Myth in Relation to Greek Culture	78
3	Definitions of Some Greek Concepts	79
4	Exotic Elements in Greek Cults	80
	Notes	81
Pt. 3	The Brauronian Myths, Rites and Cult Customs - The Goddess Iphigeneia	85
	Testimonia	88
IX	The Background	92
	The Attic Region	92
X	The Brauronian Cult	93
1	Garments Offered at the Brauronian Sanctuaries	93
2	Versions of the Attic Bear Myth	97
3	Arkteia - The Bear Ritual	98
4	The Priestess of the Brauronian Artemis	102
XI	The Goddess Iphigeneia	103
1	Iphimedeia/Iphigeneia - Linear B	103
2	A Hypothesis by K.O. Muller	104
XII	Forms of the Aegean 'Great Goddess'	106
	Some Reflections on the Deities	106
	Notes	108
	Summary	111
	Concluding Remarks	113
	References: Classical	122
	References: Biblical	124
	References: Modern	125
	Appendix	133
	Index	134