Iphigenia in Aulis

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.

  1. You wll not lose me; I am saved and you renowned, as far as I can make you.
Clytemnestra
  1. How so? Must I not mourn your death?
Iphigenia
  1. By no means, for I shall have no tomb heaped over me.
Clytemnestra
  1. What then? It is death, not the tomb, that is rightly mourned.
Iphigenia
  1. The altar of the goddess, Zeus’s daughter, will be my tomb.