Demosthenes, Herm
This head of the Greek orator Demosthenes (384 to 322 BCE) is a Roman copy and was mounted on a square pillar called a herm. The bronze original was set up in Athens. It had the distinction of being one of the earliest Greek portraits that was a lifelike representation, without idealisation
Material:
Marble
Location of Original:
Munich, Glyptothek 292
Size:
0.54m
Accession:
Purchased from the Munich Technische Hochschule in 1884
References:
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 303 (n.1)
Furtwängler: Catalogue of the Munich Museum, 316
Furtwängler: Hundert Tafeln, 66
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 81, no.382
Date:
Roman. Original: 280 or 279 BCE
Sculptor:
Of original: Polyeuktos
Provenance:
Found in the Circus of Maxentius in Rome
Number:
500