Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)

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ancient Greek tragedy play

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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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Iphigenia in Aulis	3
Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis	2
Agamemnon is ordered to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to obtain favorable winds for the Greek fleet to sail to Troy	1
Agamemnon’s sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis	1
Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis	1
Iphigenia	1
Iphigenia at Aulis	1
Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides) canonical	1
Iphigénie en Aulide	1

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.

NED1 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)]

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.
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.
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.
D. Agamemnon
Agamemnon is the legendary king of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War in Greek mythology.
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.

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.
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.
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.
D. Agamemnon
Agamemnon is the legendary king of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War in Greek mythology.
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 ⓘ play ⓘ
associatedDeity	Artemis ⓘ
associatedLocation	Greek camp at Aulis ⓘ
author	Euripides ⓘ
basedOn	Greek mythology ⓘ
centralTheme	conflict between family loyalty and public duty ⓘ 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 ⓘ Agamemnon versus Menelaus over the necessity of the sacrifice ⓘ Iphigenia’s personal survival versus Greek military success ⓘ
dramaticDevice	agon or formal debate scenes ⓘ use of messenger speeches ⓘ
dramaticStructure	prologue, parodos, episodes, stasima, exodos ⓘ
featuresCharacter	Achilles ⓘ Agamemnon ⓘ Chorus of women of Chalcis ⓘ Clytemnestra ⓘ Iphigenia ⓘ Menelaus ⓘ
genre	tragedy ⓘ
hasAlternativeEnding	version where Artemis rescues Iphigenia ⓘ version where Iphigenia is actually sacrificed ⓘ
influenced	Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Iphigénie en Aulide ⓘ Eugene O’Neill’s play Mourning Becomes Electra ⓘ linked to: 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 ⓘ Iphigenia’s transformation from victim to willing sacrifice in some versions ⓘ
partOf	Euripidean corpus ⓘ linked to: Euripides
plotSummary	Agamemnon is ordered to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to obtain favorable winds for the Greek fleet to sail to Troy ⓘ linked to: Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
relatedMyth	House of Atreus ⓘ linked to: House of Atreus myth cycle
relatedWork	Iphigenia among the Taurians ⓘ linked to: Iphigenia in Tauris The Oresteia ⓘ linked to: Oresteia
setting	Aulis ⓘ
survivalStatus	extant play ⓘ
theme	manipulation and deceit ⓘ 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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