Oresteia

Atreus: family tree --

Penelope: cousin of Helen and Clytemnestra.

At the end of the war: Agamemnon returns home with a mistress, Kassandra, who foretells the future.


Iphigenia at Aulis, the sacrifice

Iphigenia at Tauris, the reconciliation


Aulis, Greece, near the Euripus Strait (see this link)

• narrow channel, separates the Greek island of Euboea in the Aegan Sea from Boeotia on the mainland
• one of two bridges across this road is accessible taking a fork on the main road at Aulis

a narrow channel of water separating the Greek island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea from Boeotia in mainland Greed
cult of Artemis at Brauron
Brauon: one of the twelve cities of ancient Attica, never mentioned as a deme;
Artemis Brauronia: the goddess in whose honor a festival was celebrated in this place

Artemis: moon god; sacrifice to Artemis; at midnight;




Tauris -- the historical name for the Crimean Peninsula
Greeks had established a colony there
wiki says Greece colonized the peninsula in the 5th century
considered the original inhabitants, the Tauri, savages