Another, yet similar version of the same tragedy which tells the story of how and why Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter. In this story, Iphigenia, we are told how Agamemnon, the King of Mycenae, put together a large army in order to sack Troy as a punishment for Paris having stolen Helen, the wife of King Menelaus. However, once Agamemnon and his army were ready to go, they could not sail their ships: There was no wind! When Agamemnon went to the temple of Artemis, the goddess of nature, to ask why this had occurred, the priestess there told him that some of his soldiers wandered into the sacred grove of Artemis and shot the holy deer that was so significant to Artemis. The priestess continued by saying that the only way Agamemnon could get the wind to come back so that his ships could sail would be to sacrifice his daughter. …show more content…
Eventually, Agamemnon ended up deciding that he would sacrifice his daughter, rather than give up his whole army and victory and keep his daughter. When the Chorus speaks of Agamemnon, they illustrate in the reader's mind a moral character who was caught in a moral dilemma: He had to choose whether or not he was going to kill his daughter for the good of his state. In Euripides' Iphigenia, we see that Agamemnon shows some remorse in one of his speeches: "What do I become? A monster to myself, to the whole world, and to all future time, a monster, Wearing my daughter's