. Apopli. Ij); Polyaen. iii. 9). His services were highlyvalued by the Athenians, and were rewarded bythem with almost unprecedented honours. Iphigenia {l<piyevtta), according to the mostcommon tradition, a daughter of Agamemnonand Clytaemnestra, but according to Stesichorusand others (Paus. ii. 22, 7), a daughter ofTheseus and Helena, and brought up by Clytae-mnestra as a foster-child. In the earliestaccounts of Agamemnons daughters three arenamed : Iphianassa, Chrysothemis, and Laodice(77. ix. 145, 287). The Cyclic poets [Oyp
. Apopli. Ij); Polyaen. iii. 9). His services were highlyvalued by the Athenians, and were rewarded bythem with almost unprecedented honours. Iphigenia {l<piyevtta), according to the mostcommon tradition, a daughter of Agamemnonand Clytaemnestra, but according to Stesichorusand others (Paus. ii. 22, 7), a daughter ofTheseus and Helena, and brought up by Clytae-mnestra as a foster-child. In the earliestaccounts of Agamemnons daughters three arenamed : Iphianassa, Chrysothemis, and Laodice(77. ix. 145, 287). The Cyclic poets [Oypr. 3)added Iphigenia as a fourth (Soph. Kl. 157), buteventually she takes the place of Iphianassa,as Electra has displaced Laodice ; and the nameIphianassa is sometimes used as a synonym lorIphigenia (Lueret. i. 86). Agamemnon hadonce killed a stag in the grove of Artemis; orhe had boasted that the goddess herself couldnot aim better; or he had vowed in the year inwhich Iphigenia was bom to sacrifice the mostbeautiful production of that year, but had after-. Iphltfcnlu ut Aullft. From the Modlcl Vote.) year. On the peace of Antalcidas, in 387. wards neglected to fulfil his vow. One of these Iphicrates went to Thrace to assist Seuthes, circumstances is suid to have been the cause of king of the Odrysae, but he soon afterwards the calm which detained the Greek fleet in formed an alliance with Cotys, who gave him Aulis, when the Greeks wanted to sail against 448 IPHIMEDIA Troy. The seer Calclias declared that the sacri-fice of Iphigenia was the only means of pro-pitiating Artemis. Agamemnon was obliged, toyield, and Iphigenia was brought to Chalcisunder the pretext of being married to Iphigenia was on the point of being sacri-ficed, Artemis carried her in a cloud to the TauricChersonesus (the Crimea), where she becamethe priestess of the goddess, and a stag was sub-stituted for her by Artemis. (Cypria, ed. Kinkel,p. 19 ; Eur. I. A. 1540, I. ; Aesch. ; Pind
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