... individual's appropriateness for sacrifice. Typically, Greek mythology portrayed the current moral standards of society, thus creating the prominence of animal sacrifice in ritual. Yet, in the Oresteia, the story of Agamemnon revolves around human sacrifice as a secondary motif. Simultaneously, however, epitomizing public reaction to such types of ritual. The first instance of sacrifice, and the cause of all following retribution, ... up He dares to become the sacrificer of his own daughter in order to help an army recapture a woman and to open up the sea to his ships- (Aeschylus). The f...

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