Aulis

[aw-lis]

noun

1. a port in ancient Boeotia, in E central Greece: the Greek fleet set out from here for Troy during the Trojan War.

Aulis

/ ˈɔːlɪs /

noun

1. an ancient town in E central Greece, in Boeotia: traditionally the harbour from which the Greeks sailed at the beginning of the Trojan war

Example Sentences

Ms. Papas appeared on the New York stage in roles that included “Iphigenia in Aulis” in 1968 and “Medea” in 1973.

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The following year, she was Clytemnestra in a Circle in the Square production of “Iphigenia in Aulis.”

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She is sacrificed or not in Aulis.

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Social critics have long turned to Euripides’s plays, especially “Iphigenia in Aulis,” “Iphigenia in Tauris” and “Medea,” which also features a woman tangled up in the whims of the gods.

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In “Iphigenia in Aulis,” the last great work by the Athenian playwright Euripides, she volunteers to be sacrificed in order to help her countrymen wage war, but she’s mysteriously saved by the goddess Artemis.

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