Ἰφιγενείαν

See also: Ἰφιγένειαν

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Proper noun

Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱν • (Īphigeneíān) f

1. accusative of Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱ (Īphigeneíā)
   • 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