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iphigenia
/ˌɪfɪd͡ʒɪˈnaɪə/
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What does iphigenia mean?
proper noun
- The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy.
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/ˌɪfɪd͡ʒɪˈnaɪə/
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On the day of the ascent, the opera of “Iphigenia in Aulis” was given, and the theatre was thronged by a vast assemblage, attracted thither in the hope of seeing the illustrious experimentalists.
Miss Chudleigh(23) was Iphigenia, but so naked that you would have taken her for Andromeda; and Lady Betty Smithson had such a pyramid of baubles upon her head, that she was exactly the Princess of Babylon in Grammont.