Italy, Naples Museum, from Pompeii, House of the Tragic Poet (VI, 8, 5), Iphigenia's Sacrifice

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Iphigeneia is dragged to the altar by two soldiers as a sacrificial offering to Artemis. One either side stand her father, King Agamemnon, and grieving mother Clytemnestra. In the heavens Artemis summons one of her Nymphs to bring a stag to substitute for the girl.

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