Artist Unknown Greek Philosopher Socrates Alabaster Bust Head Statue Sculpture Décor 5.9 inches

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This bust of Aristotle is a marble Roman copy after a Greek bronze original by Lysippos from 330 BC. He stated that nobody “needs to be taught what a circle or a triangle is.” People know these concepts naturally, which suggests that they must have learned things like these in a former life.

Philip, as a young man, was a charismatic and courageous warrior, and he was inevitably compared to Alexander the Great. Philip V was succeeded by his eldest son Perseus, who ruled as the last king of Macedon. Bust of Philip V of Macedon E. Voutiras, Studien zu Interpretation und Stil griechischer Porträts des 5. und frühen 4. JHS (Bonn, 1980), 99; The National Roman Museum and houses Rome’s ancient art collection consisting of sculpture, painting, mosaic work, and goldsmith’s craft from the Republican Age to the Late Antiquity.

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Brun, Jean (1978). Socrate (in French) (6thed.). Presses universitaires de France. pp.39–40. ISBN 978-2-13-035620-2. Mark bought it in 1995 from Mayfair antique dealers Mallet, London. They also have a New York showroom. Townley's description; ‘A head bearing a helmet, and placed upon a Terminus, with the name of Pericles, thus inscribed upon it, ПΕΡΙΚΛΕΣ. The portrait of this great warrior and legislator was not known in these days, until this Terminus, and another similar to it , but of a more modern style of sculpture, were discovered 1780 at the pianella [sic, for Pianura] di Cassio before mentioned’ (TY 12/3, street drawing room 20). The inscription actually reads ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ. Wolfsdorf 2013, p.34: Others include Charmides, Crito, Euthydemus, Euthyphro, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Laches, Lysis, Protagoras. Benson 2011, p.179, also adds parts of Meno. For example, if we have a universal definition of justice, we have a secure basis for not only judging the action of an individual but also for the solid construction of the moral rules of society.

A park in the neighborhood was once a port for sand and stone. It was a landfill and dumping ground until local sculptor Mark di Suvero turned it into a public park in 1985. It was opened to the public a year later. Today, it is one of the largest outdoor spaces in New York City devoted to sculpture. The statue has remained a landmark of Long Island City for over a century, and its location in the park is a popular destination for tourists. In other words, he sought the absolute and rejected the relative; he studied the essence of morality and disregarded what he saw as more superficial moral issues.Piety had, for Athenians, a broad meaning. It included not just respect for the gods, but also for the dead and ancestors. The impious individual was seen as a contaminant who, if not controlled or punished, might bring upon the city the wrath of the gods--Athena, Zeus, or Apollo--in the form of plague or sterility. The ritualistic religion of Athens included no scripture, church, or priesthood. Rather, it required--in addition to belief in the gods-- observance of rites, prayers, and the offering of sacrifices. Gisela Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. I (London: Phaidon Press, 1965), 113 no. 13, figs. 513, 516 This bust depicts Philip V King of Macedon wearing a Phrygian-style helmet, which was common among the Macedonians. Philip V was king from 221 to 179 BC. In ancient art, double herms were a common statue type. While in Greece they were displayed in public rooms, in the Roman empire they were shown in private spaces. [ citation needed] Thus, the combination of the two philosophers here owed something to the personal inclinations of the person who commissioned it, even if it is not clear why these two philosophers were linked in particular. Probably it has to do with the fact that they were both forced to commit suicide. The presentation of philosophers (and poets) as double herms was the most common use of this genre. This parallel presentation is also seen in literature, for example in the Parallel Lives of Plutarch. A large part of the sculpture at the National Roman Museum consists of the bust of famous people from history. Busts from Ancient History

Clearly the man was one of the most famously even-keeled of humans; having no fear of the battlefield, after years of combat, or the ongoing domestic battlefield of his home life, he seemingly simply had nothing left to fear. He also believed that how humans tend to remember things that they have had no experience of in their lifetimes — referred to as the principle of recollection — proves this hypothesis.

Before the Hellenistic period (i.e. after Alexander’s death in 323 BC), ancient Greek sculptors did not strive to create realistic portraits. They tended to create more idealized representations, such as the famous bust of Themistocles. Greek portraits probably did not reproduce the subject accurately. The Greeks were not like the Romans, who excelled when it came to the creation of realistic portraits of people. However, Philip’s reign was principally marked by an unsuccessful struggle with the emerging power of the Roman Republic. The owner of the bust, Mark Farley, who gave me a private tour of his jaw-dropping film and TV prop house Farley’s recently, gave me some low down on this striking antique. It is in fact a late 17th Century Italian piece, Heroic (size) white marble and porphyry bust of a philosopher with gilt bronze robes. I enjoyed meeting the Gladiator bust in person – which sits loud and proud in Farley’s – suppliers of fine antique furniture, art and action props to the theatre, television and film industries

The Treasures of the British Museum: Art and Man (Exhibition Catalogue, Tokyo, 1990), 125, no. 123; We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. G. M. A. Richter, The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks (New Haven, 1929), 175-6, fig. 624 (19302), 233-5, fig. 624; A. H. Smith, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Vol. I (London 1892), 288-9, no. 549;K. Fittschen et al., Verzeichnis der Gipsabgüsse des Archäologischen Instituts der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Göttingen, 1990), 132, A 594 (bibl.); He made no writings and is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers writing after his lifetime, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. He also influenced Islamic thought during the Middle Ages, as well as Christian theology. Portrait of Aristotle G. H. Chase, Greek and Roman Sculpture in American Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1924), 65, fig. 71;