Examples of using Iphigenia in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Iphigenia, come.
I come for Iphigenia.
Iphigenia, where are you?
However, something along the lines of Dianthia or Iphigenia.
I Iphigenia[1] initial sound.
Thus to the question raised by the sacrifice of Iphigenia there resounds a wonderful answer!
Iphigenia, play by Samuel Coster.
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Iphigenia in Aulis, a play by Euripides.
The priestess of Artemis, whose duty it was to perform the sacrifice,was Orestes sister Iphigenia.
Iphigenia, first(1862) version(Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt).
And he represented this perpetualsacrifice demanded by intellectual culture as the sacrifice of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon.
Iphigenia then offers to release Orestes if he will carry home a letter from her to Greece.
In August 1806, he took command of the 38-gun frigate HMS Imperieuse,formerly the Spanish frigate Iphigenia.
When Iphigenia arrived ready for the wedding, she was carried to the altar of Aphrodite to be killed.
Artemis was very angry at Agamemnon for not making a sacrifice to her andso she demanded him to sacrifice his only daughter, Iphigenia to her.
But in the figure of Iphigenia herself we meet gentleness and harmony, which do not hate with those that hate but love with those who love.
Clytemnestra believes the murder was justified,since Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia before the war, as commanded by the gods.
When he wrote his Iphigenia, which in a way brings to symbolic expression the whole of his work, Goethe made his first contact with the spiritual riches of European antiquity.
To those who can look below the surface of the spiritual life of today these figures appear like two beams of prophetic light:they are Persephone and Iphigenia.
Just as Persephone stands for the leader of the ancient clairvoyant culture,so Iphigenia represents the perpetual sacrifice which our intellectuality has to make to the deeper religious life.
Traditionally it is identified with the ancient Aulis, the port from which the Greek army set sail for the Trojan War andthe setting for the Euripides play, Iphigenia in Aulis.
Thus when Goethe was inspired in presenting his Iphigenia to Europe to testify to the perpetual sacrifice of intellectuality it was a first reminder of all-important impulses for the spiritual life of Europe.
He wished to put into artistic form what worked on him in the character of Frau von Stein,and the legend of Iphigenia was only the means for solving this life problem.
Here let me preface that as Iphigenia is the daughter of Agamemnon- one of those Heroes to whom the ancient Greek traced the cult of its intellectuality in its widest sense, with the practical and aggressive forms it takes- so Persephone is the daughter of Demeter.
And if one realises this, it brings home to one the significance of Goethe's action in immersing himself in the life of ancient Greece andexpressing in the symbol of Iphigenia what he himself felt to be the culmination of his art.
A few years later, when the children of Agamemnon,Orestes and Iphigenia took refuge in the Island of Sminthos, now the home of Chryseis and her family, she proposed surrendering the fugitives to King Thoas. Her son Chryses, learning they were his half-siblings, helped them to kill the Taurian king.
I have one in my pocket here from the first century BCE by Lucretius, the author of"On the Nature of Things," who said,"Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum"-- I should have been able to learn that by heart- which is, that's how much religion is able to persuade people to do evil, and he was talking about thefact of Agamemnon's decision to place his daughter Iphigenia on an altar of sacrifice in order to preserve the prospects of his army.
Just as Iphigenia was offered to Artemis as a sacrifice, but through her sacrifice became a priestess, so in the course of bygone millennia certain elements of our intellectual civilisation have had repeatedly to be cleansed and purified and given a sacerdotal-religious character in sacrifice to the higher gods, so that they should not cause the hearts and souls of men to wither up.