Timanthes

[1][2][3] A fresco discovered at Pompeii, and now in the Museum at Naples, has been regarded as a copy or echo of this painting (Wolfgang Helbig, Wandgemälde Campaniens, No.

[4] Timanthes' Sacrifice of Iphigenia was well-known in Rome through Pliny the Elder's description in Book 35 of his Natural History.

Even before his description, Cicero and Quintillian used it to describe the effects of the four men who witnessed or partook of the sacrifice.

Artists such as Giorgio Vasari and Peter Paul Rubens attempted to replicate the lost painting.

[5] Writers from Leon Battista Alberti to Jacopo Sannazaro,[6] and from Michel de Montaigne to Gianbattista Marino, include the sacrifice in their works devoting all their attention to the sadness expressed by the four men and Agamemnon in particular.