Phaedra

This is a detail of the Agrigento Sarcophagus (see above), a scene on the short side that shows Phaedra being attended to by girls and women. She is larger in scale than they, and her seated figure is graceful. Two girls with rowed hair confer in the background, a woman holds her arm, another whispers to her, offering her something to comfort her in her grief for having been rejected by Hippolytus.