Which daughter of Agamemnon was sacrificed for a fair wind?
Iphianassa (daughter of Agamemnon) Natura", mentions Iphianassa being sacrificed by her father on the altar of the "Virgin of the Crossways" ("Triviai virginis") Diana at Aulis as an offering to ensure a successful voyage, in undoubted reference to the tradition of Iphigeneia. Lucretius cited this episode to make the point: "Superstition ("religio") was able to induce so great an evil." Iphianassa (daughter of Agamemnon) In the "Iliad", Iphianassa (; Ancient Greek: Ίφιάνασσα "Īphianassa" "strong queen") is an obscure and controversial daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, sister to Laodice and Chrysothemis, sometimes considered identical to Iphigeneia. Extant plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides on the
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) is an oil painting by American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts a catboat called the "Gloucester" chopping through that city's harbor under "a fair wind" (Homer's original title). Inside the boat are a man, three boys, and their catch. Homer began the canvas in New York in 1873, after he had visited Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he first worked in watercolor. He used the sketches made there, of which the most closely related is "Sailing the Catboat" (1873), for the oil painting, which he worked on over three years. Infrared reflectography