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Eine "Homerische Gruppe" in den Horti Sallustiani?
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 467407
Author(s) Grawehr, Matthias
Author(s) at UniBasel Grawehr Sommerer, Matthias
Year 2010
Title Eine "Homerische Gruppe" in den Horti Sallustiani?
Journal Antike Kunst
Volume 53
Pages / Article-Number 88–93
Keywords Sculpture, Hellenism
Abstract

A sculptural fragment cemented in the wall of the large loggia of the Swiss Institute in Rome was presumably found in the region of the horti Sallustiani. It comes from a statue of unusual type. The arm is strongly bent at the elbow and wrist; most likely, it belonged to a combatant unsheating his sword. In style and subject, the sculpture can be connected with the so-called "Homeric Groups" that were very popular in the Late Hellenistic period and often used to decorate Roman villas. Pompeian frescos show Achilles fighting Agamemnon in a similar stance; on sarcophagi we find a related figure in Diomedes discovering Achilles on Skyros. It is unclear whether the fragment belongs to an original, Late Hellenistic creation or to a Roman copy.

Publisher Vereinigung der Freunde Antike Kunst
ISSN/ISBN 0003-5688
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A5841713
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