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Iphigenia Monologue from Iphigenia in Tauris

From Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides

female · anguished · 1:19 min

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Alas, she dwelleth under distant skies, Unhappy one, and vain is all thy prayer. Yet, Oh, them art from Argos: all of care That can be, I will give and fail thee not. Rich raiment to thy burial shall be brought, And oil to cool thy pyre in golden floods, And sweet that from a thousand mountain buds The murmuring bee hath garnered, I will throw To die with thee in fragrance.... I must go And seek the tablet from the Goddess' room Within.--Oh, do not hate me for my doom! Watch them, ye servitors, but leave them free. It may be, past all hoping, it may be, My word shall sail to Argos, to his hand Whom most I love. How joyous will he stand To know, past hope, that here on the world's rim His dead are living, and cry out for him! (She goes into the Temple.)

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Iphigenia expresses her sorrow and longing for her loved ones while preparing for a tragic fate, reflecting on her connection to Argos and the inevitability of death.

20s · longing · love · death · fate

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