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Iphigenia Monologue from Iphigenia in Tauris

From Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides

female · anguished · 1:15 min

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So be it. My foremost care must be that nothing harms The temple's holy rule.--Untie their arms. That which is hallowed may no more be bound. You, to the shrine within! Let all be found As the law bids, and as we need this day. Ah me! What mother then was yours, O strangers, say, And father? And your sister, if you have A sister: both at once, so young and brave To leave her brotherless! Who knows when heaven May send that fortune? For to none is given To know the coming nor the end of woe; So dark is God, and to great darkness go His paths, by blind chance mazed from our ken. Whence are ye come, O most unhappy men? From some far home, methinks, ye have found this shore And far shall stay from home for evermore.

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Iphigenia grapples with her duty to the temple while reflecting on the tragic fate of the strangers before her, revealing her own sense of loss and the uncertainty of their futures.

20s · sadness · fate · family · loss · sacrifice

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