File:At the British Museum 2024 150.jpg
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Marble head of an old man, perhaps the poet Hesiod Roman copy after a lost Hellenistic original of the 2nd century BC The identification of this head is not certain. It was once identified as the stoic philosopher Seneca. The rustic appearance of the portrait has inspired the suggestion that it represents the poet Hesiod (fl.c.700 BC), author of the bucolic guide to good husbandry, Works and Days. Hesiod's portrait was often coupled with that of his near contemporary Homer. GR 1962.8-24.1 Left Marble terminal bust of Homer Roman copy after a lost Hellenistic original of the 2nd century BC From Baiae, in Italy Various portraits of the poet Homer are known, all of them created long after his death around 700 BC. The so-called Hellenistic blind-type is the most evocative of them all. The treatment of the hair and the facial features can be paralleled with the figures of the Great Altar at Pergamon, and the original of the type was perhaps created for the great library there. Townley Collection GR 1805.7-3.85 (Sculpture 1825). |
| Date | 14:03:05.12+01:00 |
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| Author | Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). |
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