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The Lion of Chaeronea

@lionofchaeronea / lionofchaeronea.tumblr.com

A blog dedicated to classical antiquity, poetry, and the visual arts. All translations of Greek and Latin are my own unless otherwise noted.
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The so-called Diadoumenos (youth binding his brow with a fillet).  Roman marble copy of the Flavian period (69-96 CE) after a lost bronze original by the Argive sculptor Polyclitus (fl. ca. 450-415 BCE).  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Head of a wounded Amazon of the so-called “Capitol-Sosicles” type; Roman marble copy after a lost Greek bronze original, created by Polyclitus or Cresilas at Ephesus, ca. 440-430 BCE.  Found in the Horti of Maecenas; now in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

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