This event occurs in a Las Vegas hotel room in the first play in Neil LaBute’s collection Bash. The chorus describes a saffron robe falling to the ground during this event in the first stasimon of a play that claims it occurred under the “yoke of necessity” after two eagles killed a pregnant hare. Aristotle hated the abrupt change of mind that allows this event, which is averted with the revelation of the maid Ériphile’s (“eh-ree-FEEL’s”) birth name in Jean Racine’s adaptation. In a sequel to the play about this event, its subject gets a job guarding a xoanon (“ZOH-uh-non”) statue and killing Greek visitors to the realm of King Thoas. The subject of this event is replaced with a deer and whisked off to Tauris in a Euripides play set in Aulis. For 10 points, Aeschylus’s Clytemnestra avenges what event that was ordered by Agamemnon to allow the Greek fleet to sail for Troy? ■END■
ANSWER: sacrifice of Iphigenia [or descriptions of the murder of Iphigenia or death of Iphigenia; accept descriptions of Iphigenia being rescued or Iphigenia being replaced by a deer during her sacrifice; accept Iphigénie in place of “Iphigenia”; prompt on Iphigenia in Aulis or Iphigenia at Aulis or Īphigéneia en Aulídi until “Aulis” is read; prompt on sacrifice or murder or equivalents by asking “of who?”]
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