Iphigenia is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Iphigenia in a sentence
Iphigenia meaning
The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy.
Synonyms of Iphigenia
Using Iphigenia
- The main meaning on this page is: The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy.
- Useful related words include: mythical being.
- In the example corpus, iphigenia often appears in combinations such as: daughter iphigenia, iphigenia in, and iphigenia.
Context around Iphigenia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Iphigenia
- In this selection, "iphigenia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, daughter, voiced, euripides and story stand out and add context to how "iphigenia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and euripides iphigenia at aulis and and recapture iphigenia in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "iphigenia" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with iphigenia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Artemis saved Iphigenia because of her bravery. (7 words)
At the center of “Agamemnon’s Daughter” is an icy reinterpretation of the Iphigenia story. (15 words)
He is delivered by Lysimachus; and the twain capture Cassandra and recapture Iphigenia in the hour of their marriage. (19 words)
Agamemnon extended his dominion by conquest and became the most powerful prince in Greece.sfn However, when Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter Iphigenia to appease the gods before the war with Troy, Clytemnestra turned against him. (36 words)
In the Homeric poems, there seems to be a lingering cultural memory of human sacrifice in King Agamemnon 's sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia ; several of the stories of Trojan heroes involve tragic human sacrifice. (35 words)
Artemis swears revenge and halts the winds to prevent the Greek armies from sailing to war until her demand of an equal sacrifice in the form of Agamemnon’s daughter, Iphigenia, is met. (33 words)
Example sentences (13)
Artemis swears revenge and halts the winds to prevent the Greek armies from sailing to war until her demand of an equal sacrifice in the form of Agamemnon’s daughter, Iphigenia, is met.
At the center of “Agamemnon’s Daughter” is an icy reinterpretation of the Iphigenia story.
Soprano Aura Veruni was a sweet-voiced Iphigenia, whose aria at the close of Act 1 expressed her joy at the prospect of wedding her beloved Achilles.
The performance based on Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon” and Euripides’ “Iphigenia at Aulis” will be performed at the ancient Delphi site’s Roman Agora.
Abraham couldn't understand how sacrificing Isaac would be a good gift while Agamemnon was certain that sacrificing Iphigenia would be a good gift to the Greek state.
Agamemnon extended his dominion by conquest and became the most powerful prince in Greece.sfn However, when Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter Iphigenia to appease the gods before the war with Troy, Clytemnestra turned against him.
Artemis saved Iphigenia because of her bravery.
He is delivered by Lysimachus; and the twain capture Cassandra and recapture Iphigenia in the hour of their marriage.
In the Homeric poems, there seems to be a lingering cultural memory of human sacrifice in King Agamemnon 's sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia ; several of the stories of Trojan heroes involve tragic human sacrifice.
It includes a telling of the story of Iphigenia in Tauris (2), a poem against criticism (9), and a dream of Cupid (3).
The Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis were performed after his death in 405 BC and first prize was awarded posthumously.
The origin of the ritual of the rex Nemorensis should have to be traced to the legend of Orestes and Iphigenia more than that of Hippolitos.
Thus for example two extant plays, The Phoenician Women and Iphigenia at Aulis, are significantly corrupted by interpolations Justina Gregory, 'Euripidean Tragedy', in A Companion to Greek Tragedy, Justina Gregory (ed.
Common combinations with iphigenia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- daughter iphigenia 3×
- iphigenia in 3×
- and iphigenia 3×
- iphigenia at 2×