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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
"She looked just like a painting dying to speak."— Aeschylus
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Meaning of this quote
The chorus describes Iphigenia’s silent, pleading appearance just before her sacrifice.
Key takeaway:
Keep the person’s vulnerability in view within the tragic image.
Origin of the quote
Agamemnon, chorus’s account of Iphigenia, Ian Johnston translation.
Who actually said this?
VerifiedThe exact English sentence appears in Johnston’s translation. Its painterly image belongs to the story of a child being sacrificed, not a generic portrait description.
