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“DAUGHTER OF AGAMEMNON, IPHIGENIA”

(Daughter of Death)

To Love Iphigenia would make you king of the woods, Rex Nemorensis

But this is not as simple as that. It begins with Paris kidnapping Helen, wife of Menelaus who was king of Sparta. Needless to say war was about to ensue. As the greeks rallied together to begin the siege of Troy there was no wind to carry them across the sea. The “seer” said the cause was king Agamemnon had angered the Artemis and she demanded the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia! As she lay upon the alter in the moment before the knife touched her Artemis replaced her with a deer before anyone but the seer knew. She hid Iphigenia in a sacred grove called Nemi This would later become known as Diana’s Mirror. Ironically as queen of the temple she would oversee the sacrifices. This is where “the ghastly priest doth reign” Her lovers would all suffer the same fate. “The priest who slew the slayer,

And shall himself be slain”

Would you entertain her inviting glance?

“From where the Witch's Fortress

O'er hangs the dark-blue seas;

From the still glassy lake that sleeps

Beneath Aricia's trees--

Those trees in whose dim shadow

The ghastly priest doth reign,

The priest who slew the slayer,

And shall himself be slain;”

• The Battle of Lake Regillus

• by Thomas Babbington Macaulay