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Luxuriant luxuriance in the glyptic occurs in Hellenism. According to WATCHTUTORIALS, there are numerous signatures: Agatopo, Apollonio, Atenione, Boeto, probably the sculptor of Chalcedon, Daedalus, Heraclida, Phidias, Filone, Gelone, Licomede,…

From the heroic head of Alexander the Great, provided with ram’s horns in the snaking locks of hair, on the coins of Lysimachus, king of Thrace (306-281), through the effigies…

For the sec. IV we know the name of an excellent toreuta, Mentor, and perhaps Mie dates back to the same century; but it is especially in the Hellenistic age,…

For the bronze pottery of the sixth and fifth centuries, some typical examples can be adduced, in which the casting technique appears, no longer that of hammering: the tondo di…

Especially the Asian city of Myrina has offered abundant congeries of these Hellenistic terracottas, but many are also those coming from various centers of Sicily. And the types are very…

In the minor arts we can include the coroplasty, the toreutics, the goldsmith’s art, the art of the coin, the glyptic, the ivory carving. Of coroplastica we have the first units in…

Following the fervor of studies aroused in the century. III both by Neoplatonic philosophers and scholars and by Christian theologians, we are presented in the century. IV a rich literary…

In such times and in such conditions it is understood that poetry was little and badly represented. He continued to express himself, by force of inertia, in the forms of…

Luciano had begun his activity as a rhetoric scholar: he was a lawyer and lecturer, one of those who were giving declamations and readings from city to city, from country…

Such are the Roman stories written respectively by Appiano of Alexandria (about 160) and by Cassius Dione Cocceiano (about 155-235). But most of the production is aimed at satisfying scholarly…

Thus, first of all, Sacred Scripture was translated and disseminated in the version of the Seventy; thus other works arose, of an apologetic, historical, propaganda character, such as the Letter of…

When the whole Hellenic or Hellenized world fell under Roman rule, Greek literature was definitively deprived of its individuality; and although it still extends for several and several centuries with…

The museums and collections that contain monuments of Greek art can be divided into four main categories: from Greece and the Hellenic East, from Italy, from Europe, from other parts…