Aulis

[ aw-lis ]

/ ˈɔ lɪs /

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

Example sentences from the Web for aulis

Iphigenia in Aulis was composed in less than a year; but to write an opera is one thing, to get it produced another.

History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time |Henry Sutherland Edwards
And as the curtain rose, "And here are the gulfs of Aulis, and the Greek host."

The Coryston Family |Mrs. Humphry Ward
Again, the army is represented as assembling twice at Aulis and twice starting for Troy.

The Heroic Age |H. Munro Chadwick
The Iphigeneia in Aulis was written in the last year of the poet's life.

Authors of Greece |T. W. Lumb

But in a horse-chariot they brought me to the sands of Aulis, a bride, alas!

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. |Euripides

Aulis

/ (ˈɔːlɪs) /

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