Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella & Stories

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In 1843, botanist Kunth published Iphigenia, which is a plant genus in the family Colchicaceae and it was named after Iphigenia.

She retaliates by preventing the Greek troops from reaching Troy unless Agamemnon kills his eldest daughter, Iphigenia, at Aulis as a human sacrifice.Fusing the moods of Kafka and Orwell", [3] the diptych Agamemnon's Daughter/ The Successor is considered by Kadare's French publisher, Fayard's editor Claude Durand, "one of the finest and most accomplished of all Ismail Kadare's works to date". In Downton Abbey, Lord Grantham compares Lavinia Swire to Iphigenia, being sacrificed by Lady Grantham to marry Matthew Crawley. Clytemnestra greets Achilles as her future son-in-law, and an embarrassing confusion ensues until the Old Man explains to them what Agamemnon’s true intentions are. Iphigenia and her mother Clytemnestra are brought to Aulis, under the pretext that Achilles will marry the girl. The seer Calchas was among the group, and he told Agamemnon that he had angered the goddess Artemis and that the wind would not allow them to make their voyage until Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia, to the goddess.

This miscellany contains the title novella, finished in 1985 and published here in English for the first time, and two stories. A soothsayer, Calchas (as it turns out, a Trojan turncoat, now working for the Greeks), informs him that the only way to appease Artemis is to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia. Three goddesses — Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite — claim it, and Zeus picks Paris, a prince of Troy, to judge who gets the apple.Game of Thrones character Shireen Baratheon was sacrificed to a god by her father, which some critics compared to Iphigenia.