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What does Aulis mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (historical) an ancient port-town, located in Boeotia in central Greece, at the Euripus Strait, opposite of the island of Euboea; identified with the modern Avlida
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The plot is loosely based on another Greek myth, from Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis.
The restaurant features organic produce from Rogan's nearby farm and also has a research kitchen called Aulis where new recipes are perfected.
He is dead and his marriage that was made at Aulis is of no effect.
And so the altar on the shore of the modern Aulis reeked with no sacrifice.
The fleet is becalmed at Aulis after its first abortive attempt because Agamemnon has angered the goddess Artemis by killing a stag in her sacred grove.
Her translation of Iphigeneia at Aulis is the first known dramatic work by a woman in English.

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