Silanion
Silanion (
Mithridates of Persia for the Academy of Athens, c. 370 BC.[2] Later copies of it and of an idealized portrait head of Sappho survive. Both are of simple ideal type, the Sappho not strictly a portrait, since Sappho (sixth century BC) lived before the age of portraiture.[3] The best copy of the Plato is in the Glyptothek of Munich (illustration).[4]
Silanion also produced a "portrait" of the poet Corinna. Other "portrait" heads by Silanion evoked mythic and legendary heroes. An Achilles mentioned by Pliny was later adapted to represent Ares,[5] and an equally idealized Theseus is mentioned by Plutarch.
Silanion wrote a treatise on proportions that is mentioned by Vitruvius (vii, introduction), but has otherwise been lost to the ages.
References
- ^ Eduard Schmidt, in Archaeologischen Jahrbuch, 47 (1932) 246ff., and 49 (1934) 180ff.
- Diogenes Laërtius (3.25,) crediting Favorinusin his Memorabilia.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., 1911, s.v. "Silanion"; F.D. Lazenby, "Das Bildnis der Sappho", The Classical World, 1967.
- ^ Another copy in the Capitoline Museums, Rome; a further copy is in the National Museum, Athens.
- ^ S. Lattimore, "Ares and the Heads of Heroes", American Journal of Archaeology, 83.1 (January 1979).
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