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(…) Consider the recent episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Sunday’s instalment saw the sacrifice of Shireen, the virginal daughter of Stannis Baratheon.
his shocking twist is not merely the product of sadistic scriptwriters and producers. It is also the inclusion of a plot motif with a long heritage. Its most obvious correlative is the Greek tale of Iphigeneia, a small but significant component of the Trojan War myth cycle.
Iphigeneia was the daughter of two of the main protagonists (or super-villains) of this myth series. Her father was Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and brother of Menelaus, the husband of Helen.
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