... 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 ... to sacrifice his daughter, Iphpigenia, because of constraints being placed upon him by Artemis and Zeus. And because Agamemnon is blinded by his determination for his A...

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