Town of Boeotia in central Greece, celebrated as the place where the
Greek fleet assembled for the expedition against Troy and where Agamemnon
sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis to allay the contrary winds
source: "Aulis" The Concise
Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Ed. M.C. Howatson and Ian
Chilvers. Oxford University Press, 1996. Oxford Reference Online.
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