Ephigenia
Ephigenia is the alternative form of Iphigenia.
Meaning of Iphigenia
Proper noun
Iphigenia
- The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy.
- 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.2007, Amber Jacobs, On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother, page 161
Questions about Ephigenia
- What is Ephigenia the alternative form of?
- Ephigenia is the alternative form of Iphigenia.
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