Lecture 14 - Late Classical sculpture

Question 1

E.g. Ploutos in the arms of Eirene

Answer 1

Ploutos (wealth) in the arms of Eirene (pece), Kephisodotos, Roman marble copy of a Greek original erected in the Athenian Areopagus, 370 BCE (original).

Question 2

E.g. Hermes with infant Dionysos

Answer 2

By Praxiteles, Unsure whether it is original or copy, 340 BCE, made of marble.

Question 3

E.g. Apollo Sauroktonos

Answer 3

Praxiteles, Roman marble copy, Greek original 350-330 BCE.

Question 4

E.g. Aphrodite of Knidos

Answer 4

Praxiteles, Roman marble copy 2nd c CE, Greek original 350-330 BCE.

Question 5

E.g. Farnese Heracles

Answer 5

With apples of Hesperides, Lysippos, Greek original late 4th c BCE, Roman copy by Glykon of Athens, Found in the Baths of Caracalla, Rome. (Compare with Meidias Painter hydria)