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Sacrifice of Iphigenia
ID: ITPOHTP10 · © Carl Rasmussen · Added: 2017

Sacrifice of Iphigenia

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View of a beautiful fresco from a wall of the peristyle courtyard of The House of the Tragic Poet. The scene depicts Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, being carried off to be sacrificed so that there would be favorable winds for the Greeks as they set sail for Troy.