Word: priestess
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...June 16 and 19, is the tragic tale of the great leader of the host against Troy. Agamemnon, after ten years of absence from Troy, returns at the beginning of the trilogy to find his queen, Clytaemestra, living with her paramour, Aegisthus. The king, however, brings the captive Trojan priestess, Cassandra, in his train, and if the queen is guilty, her lord is not free from blame. The most dramatic scene of the play is that in which Cassandra before the palace doors vividly foresees the fate that awaits both herself and Agamemnon within. She is helpless, however, to avert...
...scene is laid in Tauris, at the grove of Diana. Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, had sought to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenie, but the goddess Diana, taking pity on her, had carried her off and installed her as a priestess in the temple at Tauris...
Here Thoas, King of Tauris, pays his suit to Iphigenie, but his attentions are repelled. The king, angered at being rejected, orders her, as priestess of the temple, to execute as human sacrifice, and for that purpose hands over two strangers to her, whom he has found on the seashore...