THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Portraiture | Greek figures
Aeschylus (ca. 525 — ca. 455 BCE), Greek dramatist
Aesop
Alexander III the Great (356—323 BCE), Macedonian king
Anacreon (ca. 570 — ca. 485 BCE), Greek lyric poet
Anaximander (ca. 610 — ca. 546 BCE), Greek philosopher
Antimachus of Colophon (5th—4th cent. BCE), Greek poet
Antisthenes (c. 445 — c. 365 BCE), Greek philosopher
Archidamus II, Spartan king (ca. 476—427 BCE)
Aristogeiton (?—514 BCE), tyrannicide
Aristotle (384—322 BCE), Greek philosopher and scientist-encyclopaedist
Bias of Priene (6th cent. BCE), one of the Seven Sages of Greece
Carneades, a Greek philisopher, 214-129 BCE.
Cimon (ca. 504 — 450 BCE), Athenian strategos and statesman
Crates of Thebes (c. 365 — c. 285 BCE), Greek philosopher
Demosthenes (384—322 BCE), Athenian statesman and orator
Diogenes of Sinope (ca. 412 — 323 BCE), Greek philosopher
Diphilus (before 340 — after 289 BCE), Greek dramatist
Epicurus (342—270 BCE), Greek philosopher
Epimenides of Knossos (7th or 6th century BCE), Greek seer and philosopher-poet.
Euripides (ca. 485 — 406 BCE), Greek dramatist
Harmodius (?—514 BCE), tyrannicide
Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535 — c. 475 BCE), Greek philosopher
Herodotus (ca. 484—425 BCE), Greek historian
Hesiod (8th—7th cent. BCE), Greek poet
Homer (ca. 8th cent. BCE), Greek poet
Hypereides (ca. 390—322 BCE), Greek orator
Isocrates (436—338 BCE), Greek orator
Lysias (ca. 445 — 380 BCE), Greek orator and logographer
Menander (ca. 342—291 BCE), Greek dramatist
Miltiades IV the Younger (ca. 550 — 489 BCE), Athenian strategos
Pericles (ca. 495—429 BCE), Greek statesman, orator, and general
Philetaerus
Phocion (ca. 402 — 318 BCE), Athenian statesman and strategos
Plato (427—347 BCE), Greek thinker
Posidippus
Posidonius of Apameia (ca. 135 — ca. 50 BCE), Greek philosopher and historian
Pythagoras of Samos (ca. 570 — ca. 495 BCE), Greek philosopher, mathematician
Sappho (c. 630 — c. 570 BCE), Greek poetess
Sauromates II, king of Kimmerian Bosphorus in 174—210 CE.
Socrates (ca. 469 — 399 BCE), Greek philosopher
Solari Tommaso (1820—1897)
Solon (c. 630 — c. 560 BCE), Greek statesman and poet
Sophocles (c. 496 — c. 406 BCE), Greek dramatist
Thales of Miletus (c. 624 — c. 545 BCE), Greek philosopher
Themistocles (ca. 524 — 459 BCE), Athenian strategos and statesman
Thucydides (ca. 460 — ca. 400 BCE), Greek historian
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1. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Portrait of a ruler, presumably Sauromates II, king of Kimmerian Bosphorus.
Marble. Late 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. NAM 419 / ex 2574.
Athens, New Acropolis Museum.
2. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Portrait of a ruler, presumably Sauromates II, king of Kimmerian Bosphorus.
Marble. Late 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. NAM 419 / ex 2574.
Athens, New Acropolis Museum.
3. SCULPTURE. Rome.
An unknown Greek (erroneously supposed to be Sophokles).
Marble.
Inv. No. Sk 296.
Berlin, State Museums.
4. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Term of an unknown Greek.
Marble.
Inv. No. Sk 316.
Berlin, State Museums.
5. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Term of an unknown Greek.
Marble.
Inv. No. Sk 317.
Berlin, State Museums.
6. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sophocles (?)
White marble. Roman copy after a Greek statue ca. 380—360 BCE.
Inv. No. Sk 296.
Berlin, State Museums, Pergamon Museum.
7. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Double herm with portraits of Socrates (470—399 BCE) and roman philosopher Seneca (4 BCE — 65 CE).
Marble. First half of the 3rd century. Portraits are coupled in double herm by later roman copyist.
Inv. No. Sk 391 (R 106).
Berlin, State Museums, Pergamon Museum.
8. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Socrates. Double herm with portraits of Socrates and roman philosopher Seneca.
Marble. First half of the 3rd century. Portraits are coupled in double herm by later roman copyist.
Inv. No. Sk 391 (R 106).
Berlin, State Museums, Pergamon Museum.
9. GLYPTICS. Rome.
A ringstone with Roman carnelian with a male portrait.
Intaglio: carnelian, 1st cent. BCE — 1st cent. CE.
Ring: gold, modern work.
Christie’s Fine Art Auction House.
10. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Euripides.
Marble.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
11. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Plato.
Marble.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
12. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait head of the Sophocles’ type.
Marble.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
13. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Anakreon.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. 491.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
14. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Anacreon.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. 491.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
15. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Anacreon. Detail.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. 491.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
16. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Anacreon.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. 491.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
17. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Anacreon.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. 491.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
18. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Anacreon. Detail.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. 491.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
19. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Anacreon.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. 491.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
20. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait head of the Sophocles’ type.
Marble.
Inv. No. 604.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.