Depictions of the sacrifice of Iphigenia

According to one side of the story, before Agamemnon could sacrifice her, Artemis saved her and replaced her with a deer on the altar.

Vases are a common base for the story, but there are mosaics, paintings, and written works from every era illustrating the myth of Iphigenia.

The most common scene depicted in the different visual media of Iphigenia is when she about to be offered up to Artemis on the altar.

Pliny the Elder was a Roman scholar who wrote about the great artists of Classical Antiquity in his encyclopedic work The Natural History.

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, by the painter Timanthes of the 4th century BC, was well-known for depicting her father Agamemnon veiling himself in grief.

[4] Iphigenia among the Taurians was painted by Timomachus, a painter of the 1st century BC whose work was renowned around the time of Julius Caesar.

Recently, a mosaic[7] depicting Iphigenia was found in Perga, Turkey during an excavation by archaeologists.

It was concluded that the site was a cult area founded in the basement of a shop that could have existed during the days of Ancient Greece.