"The Atlantic" speculates that Shireen Baratheon, a young girl from the TV series "Game of Thrones" who was sacrificed to a God by her father, was based on Iphigenia. "Slate" similarly writes: "Every beat of the Greek myth is the same as Stannis's story: The troops are stuck and starving and the general, Agamemnon, must sacrifice his own daughter to turn the fates to their favor. The mother begging for mercy, the disapproving second-in-command who can do nothing to stop it, the daughter who says she will do whatever it takes to help—it's all a clear echo."