Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Agamemnon Origin: Argive, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Victim (Person) :	Iphigenia Origin: Argive, Age: youth, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Agesilaus 6.5Plutarch Agesilaus 6.5 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Aulis (Aulis)
Context :	familicide war/military campaign religious
Motivation :	following orders religious tactical/strategical
Long-Term Consequence :	campaign
Original Text :	ἅμα δέ πως ὑπῆλθε τὸν Ἀγησίλαον ὁ τῆς κόρης σφαγιασμός, ἣν ὁ πατὴρ ἔσφαξε πεισθεὶς τοῖς μάντεσιν.
Translation :	Almost at once Agesilaüs remembered the sacrifice of his own daughter which Agamemnon had there made in obedience to the soothsayers.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives V: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 87), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1961 (first ed. 1917).
Remark :	motive: Agamemnon follows orders of the soothsayers (Plut. Ages. 6.5). His act of violence is tactical/strategical, because he ist able to continue his campaign by it. long-term consequence: By this sacrifice Agamemnon is able to continue the campaign he just started.
Notes :	For more information on the myth: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/iphigenia-e526970#e526980
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