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Quotation from Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays by Euripides
“This is my enduring monument; marriage, motherhood, and fame—all these is it to me.”
Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Iphigenia in Aulis, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891)
In the same speech Iphigenia accepts her death in place of the life she had expected.
Citation: "This is my enduring monument; marriage, motherhood, and fame—all these is it to me." — Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Iphigenia in Aulis, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891). (id euripides-iphigenia-in-aulis-and-other-plays-q2)
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
