Ἰφιγένεια

Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ • (Īphigéneia) f (genitive Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς); first declension

1. strong-born, mighty ()
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2. Iphigenia ()
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   • (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) (Can we find and add a quotation of Pindar to this entry?)
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   • 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 Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ, Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ
Genitive	τῆς Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς
Dative	τῇ Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾳ
Accusative	τὴν Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰν
Vocative	Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ

Personal names rarely take the definite article.

Synonyms

• (Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra): Ἰφιάνασσα (Iphiánassa) , Ἰφιγόνη (Iphigónē), Ἶφις (Îphis)

Descendants

• Armenian: Իփիգենիա (Ipʻigenia)
• Greek: Ιφιγένεια (Ifigéneia)
• Latin: Īphigenīa
• Old Armenian: Իփիւգենիա (Ipʻiwgenia)

References

• Template:grc-wh-page
• Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «Ἶφῐγένεια» in William J. Slater’s Lexicon to Pindar (1969)

External links

• Iphigenia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia