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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS On the seashore stands a great Temple, with steps leading to a blood-stained altar. Iphigenia, the Priestess, comes out of the Temple. Iphigenia. Pelops, the son of Tantalus, by speed Of chariot earned a bride, who bore him Atreus. And Atreus had two sons, one Menelaus, The other Agamemnon, who in turn By Clytemnestra had a child, and I Am she, Iphigenia. It is thought That I was sacrificed by my own father To Artemis, in the great quest of Helen, Upon an altar near the bay of Aulis, There where the long deep waves are caught and broken Hither and thither by the winds. That bay Held Agamemnon's fleet, the thousand ships From Hellas, waiting to avenge on Troy The wrong done Menelaus by the loss Of Helen. But a storm came up and still Another storm, and neither sea nor wind Would favor Agamemnon. So he asked Calchas the soothsayer to consult the flame. And this is what was answered: Agamemnon, Captain of Hellas, there can be no way Of setting free thy ships till Artemis Has had fulfilled Her promised sacrifice. For thou hadst vowed to sacrifice each year The fairest thing the year produced. And due To Her long since was one whom Clytemnestra Bore thee, the fairest of the year, thy daughter Iphigenia . . . Let her be brought and killed. They sent Odysseus with his lying tongue To lure me from my mother, on the plea That I should wed Achilles. When I came To Aulis, they laid hold of me and led Me to the flame, and would have struck ? I saw The knife But Artemis deceived their eyes, Leaving a deer instead, and stole me through The radiant blue until She set me down Here in the town of Tauris, where there live Barbaric men ruled by their uncouth King, Thoas, a rider reckless as the wind. He made of me a priestess in Her Te...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217493383 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217493386 |
| Weight | 0.23 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.14 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 60 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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