Iphigenia and the Cult of the Sacrificed Child

Clytemestra mourning, from Sacrifice of Iphigenia fresco, c.1st Century, Pompeii. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

They say that there is also a shrine of the heroine Iphigenia; for she too according to them died in Megara.

Now I have heard another account of Iphigenia that is given by Arcadians and I know that Hesiod, in his poem A Catalogue of Women, says tha…