Posidonius
Marble.
Circ. 60 BCE.
Inv. No. 6142.Naples, National Archaeological Museum

Posidonius.

Marble.
Circ. 60 BCE.
Inv. No. 6142.

Naples, National Archaeological Museum
(Napoli, Museo archeologico nazionale).

Description:
Inscription on the bust secures its identification. Poseidonios, from Apamea in Syria, 134—45 BC was a stoic philisopher and orator. In the years following 97 BC he lived on Rhodes and was Cicero’s teacher. From 51 BC, untill his death he lived in Rome. His portrait can be dated to about 60 BC.
Literature:
ABr, pl. 239—240.
K. Schefold, Bildnisse der antiken Dichter, Denker und Redner (Basel, 1943), p. 150.
E. Buschor, Das hellenistische Bildnis, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1971), p. 47.
G. Hafner, Späthellenistische Bildnisplastik (Berlin, 1954), p. 10 R 1.
G. M. A. Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. 2 (London, 1965), p. 282, fig. 2020.
Th. Lorenz, Galerien von griechischen Philosophen und Dichterbildnisse (Mainz, 1965), p. 8, pl. 2, 4.
Credits:
© 1987. Photo, text: Johansen F. S. «Portraits in Marble of Gaius Julius Caesar: a Review». Ancient Portraits in the J. Paul Getti Museum. Vol. I. 1987, p. 27, 31.
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