Iphigenia
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Ῑ̓φιγένεια (Īphigéneia).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Iphigenia
- (Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy.
- 2007, Amber Jacobs, On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother, page 161:
- If we are convinced by the way the Iphigenia myth reworks and distorts the structure of the Metis myth, then we gain a new understanding of the logic underlying Athena's refusal to acknowledge the crime against Iphigenia.
- 2008, Allan Brooks, Myths, Games and Conflict, page 8:
- The founding of the sanctuary at Braurona is related to the myths of Iphigenia and her brother, Orestes.
- 2013, Willie Young, “4: Taking One for the Team: Baseball and Sacrifice”, in Eric Bronson, William Irwin, editors, Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box, page 63:
- One such involuntary sacrifice is found in the story of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, the famous Greek king and warrior.
Translations
[edit]Greek mythological figure
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ (Īphigéneia).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /iː.pʰi.ɡeˈniː.a/, [iːpʰɪɡɛˈniːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /i.fi.d͡ʒeˈni.a/, [ifid͡ʒeˈniːä]
Proper noun
[edit]Īphigenīa f sg (genitive Īphigenīae); first declension
- Iphigenia (a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who, because her father had killed, in Aulis, a hart belonging to Artemis, was to be offered up by way of expiation; but the goddess put a hart in her place and conveyed her to the Tauric Chersonese, where she became a priestess of Artemis, and with her brother Orestes carried off Artemis’s image)
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Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Īphigenīa |
Genitive | Īphigenīae |
Dative | Īphigenīae |
Accusative | Īphigenīan |
Ablative | Īphigenīā |
Vocative | Īphigenīa |
Greek type accusative in -an.
References
[edit]- “Īphĭgĕnīa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Īphĭgĕnīa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 855/3.
- “Īphigenīa” on page 964/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Further reading
[edit]Iphigenia on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
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