Iphigenia aesthetic

This tragic tale relates an episode as the 100 Greek ships which sail for Troy to reclaim Helen. In some mythological versions, The king Agamemnon, after stopping at the island of Aulis and killing one of Artemis' sacred deers, is stranded with his army when the goddess stops the sailing winds. Calchis, Agamemnon's advisor and seer, tells the king only his daughter Iphigenia's sacrifice will suffice to appease the goddess. Agamemnon calls for his wife and daughter to come to Aulis under the…

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Iphigenia preparing to be sacrificed.

Iphigenia | Greek film (1977)

Not only president of Britain's prestigious Royal Academy of Arts but a Peer of the Realm, Frederick Leighton occupied a uniquely privileged place in the artistic and social establishment of Victorian England. The first of many major paintings he exhibited ...

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Iphigenia | Greek film (1977)