Iphigenia
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
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a female given name.
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Example Sentences
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For Spalding, the opera is not so much a modernization of enduring myth as a disruption of the power of myth, an emboldened empowering of the mythological Iphigenia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
Except they are not, as Spalding summons Iphigenia Unbound, Iphigenia of the Sea, Iphigenia the Elder, Iphigenia the Younger and Iphigenia of the Light in her fight against victimization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
Spalding’s iridescently jumpsuited Iphigenia of the Open Tense had some gorgeous vocal moments: The heroine’s discovery of selfhood is expressed through Spalding pushing through the husk of operatic form and blooming into long improvisatory incantations.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
She started to think about how she could craft a fuller version of Iphigenia, perhaps by unloosing more of her internal monologue, and even by refusing to present her as a single, straightforward character.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
“It was just,” Iphigenia whispered shuddering; “just—yet evil, horrible.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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