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Quotation from Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays by Euripides

“I give my body to Hellas; sacrifice it and make an utter end of Troy.”

Euripides (spoken by Iphigenia)

Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Iphigenia in Aulis, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891)

Portrait of Euripides

Iphigenia tells her mother that she has resolved to die willingly so that the fleet may sail.

Citation: "I give my body to Hellas; sacrifice it and make an utter end of Troy." — Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Iphigenia in Aulis, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891). (id euripides-iphigenia-in-aulis-and-other-plays-q1)

Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.

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