Iphigeniaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Iphigeneia

語源

From Ancient Greek Ῑ̓φιγένεια (Īphigéneia).

発音

• IPA: /ˌɪfɪd͡ʒɪˈnaɪə/, /ˌɪfɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪə/
• 韻: -aɪə

固有名詞

Iphigenia

1. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy.
   • 2007, Amber Jacobs, On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother, page 161:

     If we are convinced by the way the Iphigenia myth reworks and distorts the structure of the Metis myth, then we gain a new understanding of the logic underlying Athena's refusal to acknowledge the crime against Iphigenia.

   • 2008, Allan Brooks, Myths, Games and Conflict, page 8:

     The founding of the sanctuary at Braurona is related to the myths of Iphigenia and her brother, Orestes.

   • 2013, Willie Young, “4: Taking One for the Team: Baseball and Sacrifice”, in Eric Bronson, William Irwin, editors, Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box, page 63:

     One such involuntary sacrifice is found in the story of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, the famous Greek king and warrior.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [iː.pʰɪ.ɡɛˈniː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [i.fi.d͡ʒeˈniː.a]

固有名詞

Īphigenīa f sg (genitive Īphigenīae); first declension

1. Iphigenia (a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who, because her father had killed, in Aulis, a hart belonging to Artemis, was to be offered up by way of expiation; but the goddess put a hart in her place and conveyed her to the Tauric Chersonese, where she became a priestess of Artemis, and with her brother Orestes carried off Artemis’s image)
   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.116:

     Iphigenia Aulide duci se immolandam iubet, ut hostium elicatur suo.

     Iphigenia ordered herself to be conveyed to Aulis, to be sacrificed, that her blood might be the cause of spilling that of her enemies.

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語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

Greek type accusative in -an.

参照

• “Īphĭgĕnīa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Īphĭgĕnīa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 855/3.
• “Īphigenīa” on page 964/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

• Iphigenia on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia