Contrary to what Agamemnon chooses to believe, Iphigenia does not wake up to find herself swanning about on Mount Olympus, pouring nectar and serving ambrosia to her divine roommates. Instead she finds herself a priestess of Artemis in the land of the Taurians – we know it better as Crimea, in modern Ukraine. She is deeply resentful at being cut off from her Greek roots: she doesn’t only miss her family, but also the life she led as an Argive woman;
