Aulis

American  

[aw-lis] / ˈɔ lɪs /

noun

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

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Aulis British  

/ 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

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Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

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

From New York Times

She is sacrificed or not in Aulis.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times