Aulis

Certain · Boeotian coast

In the strait between Boeotia and Euboea the thousand ships assembled and could not sail: Artemis, offended, held the winds until Agamemnon gave her Iphigenia. The chorus of the Agamemnon circles the scene obsessively — the omen of the eagles and the hare, the prophet’s hard word, “her prayers and cries of father availing nothing.” From Aulis the curse of the house takes its final, fatal charge.