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👤 Iphigeneia

  • <span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8188815" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8188815">🌍 Athens (Attica) </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8228853" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8228853">🌍 Argos (city) </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8228863" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8228863">🌍 Arcadia </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8254029" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8254029">🌍 Laconia (Peloponnese) </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="9619397" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_9619397">🌍 Megara (Argolid) </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="10274694" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_10274694">🌍 Aigeira (Achaia) </span>
  • Alternative names
    Iphimede
    Information
    daughter of Agamemnon
    Daughter of
    👤 Agamemnon 👤 Clytaimnestra 👤 Theseus 👤 Helen
    Mother of
    👤 Neoptolemos
    Wife of
    👤 Achilles
    Has children with
    👤 Achilles
    Born at
    🌍 the Sanctuary of Eilethyia at Argos
    Priestess of
    👤 Artemis
    Priestess at
    🌍 Tauris 🌍 Scythia
    Transformed into
    👤 Hecate (goddess)👤 Orsilochia
    Dies at
    🌍 Aulis (Boiotia) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Arcadia 🌍 Megara (Argolid) 🌍 Euripos Strait (Euboia)
    Killed by
    👤 Achilles 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Calchas 👤 Odysseus 👥 the Greek Contingent at Troy
    Buried at
    🏛️ the Tomb of Iphigeneia (Megara)
    Cult sites
    🌍 Tauris 🌍 Megara (Argolid) 🌍 Aigeira (Achaia)
    Related Entities
    👤 Achilles 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Aias (the greater) 👤 Aigisthos 👤 Apollo 👤 Artemis 👤 Athena 👤 Calchas 👤 Cassandra 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Chrysothemis (Mycenaean) 👤 Clytaimnestra 👤 Electra (Mycenaean) 👤 Hermione (Spartan) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 👤 Theseus 👤 Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) 👤 Hecate (goddess)👤 Helen 👤 Phoinix (Dolopian) 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Menelaos 👤 Neoptolemos 👤 Odysseus 👤 Pylades 👥 the Greek Contingent at Troy 👤 Talthybios 👤 Thoas (Taurian) 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Aulis (Boiotia) 🌍 Tauris 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Arcadia 🌍 Rhodes (island) 🌍 Scythia 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Artemis (Taurian)🌍 Megara (Argolid) 🌍 Graia (unlocatable, Boiotia) 🌍 Amyclai (Laconia) 🌍 White Island (Pontos) 👤 Laodice (Mycenaean) 👤 Iphianassa (Mycenaean) 🌍 River Istros (Europe) 🌍 the Sea of Salmydessos (Pontos) 🏺 the Sword of Ares 🌍 the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta🌍 the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia at Brauron (Attica)🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi🌍 the Sanctuary of Eilethyia at Argos🌍 Aigeira (Achaia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Iphigeneia (Megara) 🌍 Euripos Strait (Euboia) 🏺 the Cloak of Agamemnon 🌍 Comana (Cappadocia) 🏺 the Hair of Orestes 👤 Orsilochia
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 2.16📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.22📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.27📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 168-201📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 307-329📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 90-114📖 Pausanias 1.33.1📖 Pausanias 1.43.1📖 Pausanias 7.26.5📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 19 Most📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 20a Most📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 20b Most📖 Homer, Iliad 9.270-9.320📖 Pausanias 3.16.7-3.16.11📖 Pausanias 9.19.6-9.19.7📖 Pausanias 2.22.6-2.22.7📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.26-6.27📖 Cypria fr. 20 West📖 Cypria Argumentum 8 West📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 2📖 Lucian, Toxaris, or Friendship 1-7📖 Pindar, Pythian 11 1-37📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 1.106📖 Pomponius Mela 2.11📖 Ovid, Ibis 383-384📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 1.7📖 Strabo 12.2.3📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 27📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.140-13.195📖 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 104-159📖 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 224-249📖 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1343-1447📖 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1525-1529📖 Euripides, Andromache 590-641
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, EpitomeHomer, IliadLycophron, Alexandra CypriaPausaniasHesiod, EhoiaiStraboLucian, On SacrificesLucian, Toxaris, or FriendshipPindar, Pythian 11Antoninus Liberalis, MetamorphosesPomponius MelaD-Scholia, IliadOvid, IbisOvid, MetamorphosesAeschylus, AgamemnonEuripides, Andromache
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Herodotos, Histories 4.103📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 20a Most📖 Dictys of Crete, Trojan Matters FGrHist 49 fr. 5b📖 Euphorion fr. 86 Lightfoot📖 Stesichoros fr. 27 Bergk📖 Alexander of Aitolia fr. 11 Lightfoot📖 Nicander, Heteroeumena fr. 58 Gow-Scholfield
    Depictions
    🎨 Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater attributed to the Painter of the Boston 00.348 (Vatican 17941; LIMC Antenor I 9)🎨 Campanian Red-Figure Neck Amphora attributed to the Libation Painter (Nicholson NM51.17; LIMC Iphigeneia 25)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa del Centenario IX 8, 3.7, Pompeii (PALP r9-i8-p3-space-41)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa del Citarista I 4, 5.25, Pompeii (MANN 9111, 9286; PALP r1-i4-p5-space-35)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Pinarius Cerialis III 4, 4, Pompeii (LIMC Artemis/Diana 47; PALP r3-i4-p4-space-a)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di L. Caecilius Iucundus V I, 23.26, Pompeii (MANN 111439; LIMC Iphigeneia 52; PALP r5-i1-p26-space-i)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Vesonius Primus VI 14, 20, Pompeii (PALP r6-i14-p20-space-q)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Vettii VI 15, 1, Pompeii (PALP r6-i15-p1-space-q)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Sirico VII 1, 25.47, Pompeii (MANN 8994; PALP r7-i1-p25-space-34)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di M. Spurius Mesor VII 3, 29, Pompeii (MANN 120085, 120086; PALP r7-i3-p29-space-l)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di T. Dentatius Panthera IX 2, 16, Pompeii (PALP r9-i2-p16-space-b)🎨 Wall Paintings from Private Dwelling IX 5, 14-16, Pompeii (PALP r9-i5-p14-space-e)🎨 Wall Paintings from Private Dwelling VI 5, 2, Pompeii (PALP r6-i5-p2)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Postumii VIII 4, 4.49, Pompeii (PALP r8-i4-p4-space-33)🎨 Fragment of Roman Marble Sarcophagus (Met 28.57.8a–d)🎨 Roman Marble Sarcophagus (Gregoriano Profano 10450; ASR II, no. 155, pl. 54)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa del Poeta Tragico VI 8, 3.5, Pompeii (MANN 9112; PALP r6-i8-p5-space-10)🎨 Wall painting from Masseria d'Irace (?), Pompeii (MANN SN 16)🎨 Wall Painting from Herculaneum (MANN 9538)
    Reported depictions
    🌍 the Sanctuary of Orestes and Pylades (Scythia)
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Arcadia 🌍 Laconia (Peloponnese) 🌍 Megara (Argolid) 🌍 Aigeira (Achaia)
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