Cymon and Iphigenia

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Cymon and Iphigenia: Frederic Leighton

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Work Overview: Cymon and Iphigenia
Date 1884
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 2,184 mm (85.98 in). Width: 3,900 mm (153.54 in).
Current location Art Gallery of New South Wales

Cymon and Iphigenia is a novella taken from Boccaccio's Decamerone and developed later by the poet and dramatist John Dryden. Cymon tells the story of a captive prince who falls in love with a shepherdess named Sylvia. The prince's captor, Urganda, threatens to punish Sylvia, but Merlin the magician frustrates her plans, allowing the lovers to unite.

In Greek mythology, Iphigenia (/ɪfɪdʒɪˈnaɪ.ə/; Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια, Iphigeneia) was a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Argos. Agamemnon offends the goddess Artemis, who retaliates by commanding him to kill Iphigenia as a sacrifice so his ships can sail to Troy. In some versions, Iphigenia is sacrificed at Aulis, but in others, Artemis rescues her.[1] In the version where she is saved, she goes to the Taurians and meets her brother Orestes.

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