The sculpted word: epicureanism and philosophical recruitment in ancient Greece

Frischer, Bernard

Bernard Frischer

2006, c1982

Series

ACLS Fellows’ Publications

ISBN(s)

0520902025 (E-Book)

Subject

European: Ancient to 400 C.E.

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Map of the Villa Ludovisi. After Schreiber.

Bust of Epicurus.

Figure 1. Bust of Epicurus.

scan 1

Bust of Metrodorus.

Figure 2. Bust of Metrodorus.

scan 2

Bust of Hermarchus.

Figure 3. Bust of Hermarchus.

scan 3

Bust of "Colotes."

Figure 4. Bust of "Colotes."

reconstruction 1

Bouchardon-Preisler engraving of "Epicurus philosophus."

Figure 5 Bouchardon-Preisler engraving of "Epicurus philosophus."

reconstruction 2

Reconstruction of Epicurus' statue according to Frischer.

Figure 6. Reconstruction of Epicurus' statue according to Frischer.

reconstruction 3

Ludovisi Epicurus (= statue 243 Schreiber).

Figure 7. Ludovisi Epicurus (= statue 243 Schreiber).

panoramic photography 1

Bouchardon-Preisler, "Socrates philosophus."

Figure 8. Bouchardon-Preisler, "Socrates philosophus."

"Puteanus" Epicurus, frontispiece to P. Gassendi, De Vita et Moribus Epicuri (16471).

Figure 9. "Puteanus" Epicurus, frontispiece to P. Gassendi, De Vita et Moribus Epicuri (16471).

"Howenius" Epicurus, frontispiece to P. Gassendi, De Vita et Moribus Epicuri (16562).

Figure 10. "Howenius" Epicurus, frontispiece to P. Gassendi, De Vita et Moribus Epicuri (16562).

Ludovisi statue 245 Schreiber, as restored after 1900 (= Naudé's and Howenius' "Epicurus").

Figure 11. Ludovisi statue 245 Schreiber, as restored after 1900 (= Naudé's and Howenius' "Epicurus").

Bottari's illustration of the Epicurus-Metrodorus double herm found in 1742 under S. Maria Maggiore in Rome.

Figure 12. Bottari's illustration of the Epicurus-Metrodorus double herm found in 1742 under S. Maria Maggiore in Rome.

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The sculpted word: epicureanism and philosophical recruitment in ancient Greece

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Map of the Villa Ludovisi. After Schreiber.

Bust of Epicurus.

scan 1

Bust of Metrodorus.

scan 2

Bust of Hermarchus.

scan 3

Bust of "Colotes."

reconstruction 1

Bouchardon-Preisler engraving of "Epicurus philosophus."

reconstruction 2

Reconstruction of Epicurus' statue according to Frischer.

reconstruction 3

Ludovisi Epicurus (= statue 243 Schreiber).

panoramic photography 1

Bouchardon-Preisler, "Socrates philosophus."

"Puteanus" Epicurus, frontispiece to P. Gassendi, De Vita et Moribus Epicuri (16471).

"Howenius" Epicurus, frontispiece to P. Gassendi, De Vita et Moribus Epicuri (16562).

Ludovisi statue 245 Schreiber, as restored after 1900 (= Naudé's and Howenius' "Epicurus").

Bottari's illustration of the Epicurus-Metrodorus double herm found in 1742 under S. Maria Maggiore in Rome.