Iphigeneia carried to the sacrifice (centre) while the seer Calchas (on the right) watches on and Agamemnon (on the left) covers his head in sign of deploration. In the sky, Artemis appears with a hin
Agamemnon covers his face while his daughter Iphigeneia is carried to sacrifice — Artemis appears above to accept her. This is the kind of mythological painting that survived only because Vesuvius buried it. Almost none of Roman painting made it through antiquity any other way. © Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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