Ἰφιγενεία

See also: Ἰφιγένεια

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.pʰi.ɡe.něː.aː/ → /i.ɸi.ʝeˈni.a/ → /i.fi.ʝeˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.pʰi.ɡe.něː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.pʰi.ɡeˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.ɸi.ʝeˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.fi.ʝeˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.fi.ʝeˈni.a/

Proper noun

Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱ • (Īphigeneíā) f (genitive Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς); first declension

1. Æschylean variant of Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ (Īphigéneia).
   • 458 BC, Aeschylus (aut.), H.W. Smyth (ed., tr.), Ἀγαμέμνων in Aeschylus…in two volumes II: Agamemnon (1926), ll. 1,521–1,530:

     οὔτ’ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον // τῷδε γενέσθαι. // οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην // οἴκοισιν ἔθηκ’; // ἀλλ’ ἐμὸν ἐκ τοῦδ’ ἔρνος ἀερθέν. // τὴν πολυκλαύτην Ἰφιγενείαν, // ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων // μηδὲν ἐν Ἅιδου μεγαλαυχείτω, // ξιφοδηλήτῳ, // θανάτῳ τείσας ἅπερ ἦρξεν.

     [Neither do I think he met an ignoble death.] And did he not himself by treachery bring ruin on his house? Yet, as he has suffered — worthy prize of worthy deed — for what he did to my sweet flower, shoot sprung from him, the sore-wept Iphigenia, let him make no great boasts in the halls of Hades, since with death dealt him by the sword he has paid for what he first began. ― tr. ibidem

Declension

First declension of ἡ Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱ; τῆς Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱ hē Īphigeneíā
Genitive	τῆς Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς tês Īphigeneíās
Dative	τῇ Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾳ têi Īphigeneíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱν tḕn Īphigeneíān
Vocative	Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱ Īphigeneíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.