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Hellenistic

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Roman

Hellenistic #16 Roman


Hellenistic Tradition in Roman World

Narcissus-one of most popular Greek copied by Roman

  • Hyacinthus ?

Sleeping Eros

  • popular type in Hellenistic and Roman

Aphrodite taking off sandal for bath

  • pop late H and R

Aphrodite Anadyomene

  • hair binding with both arms raised

Aphrodite or Knossos

  • undress before or dress after a bath in “heroic nudity” as unconscious and glorious as that of the gods

Diadoumenos - youth tying fillet

  • Polykleitos 

Hermes: Mercury in Roman

  • holding a purse: god of commerce

Boscoreale Villa

  • Room L: exedra opens as an alcove off the peristyle 

  • Room 24: Olearium for production of wine and olive oil

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