Living Poets

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'''Image''': Munich, Glyptothek, room 10: Saal des Alexander, inv. 273.

'''Object description''': Marble head and neck of blind poet Homer.  Roman emulation of mid-fifth-century Greek portrait.

'''Object Archaeology''': ‘Gift of P. Arndt, who acquired it in Rome in 1892’ (Richter 1965: 47).

'''Dimensions''': height 37cm.

'''Inscriptions''': None.

'''Restorations''': None.

'''Examples in major collections''' (after Richter 1965 with updates): 

* Rome, Musei Vaticani, Sala delle Muse, inv. 315
* Rome, Musei Vaticani, Maggazini, inv. 7112
* Rome, Museo Torlonia, inv. 163
* Rome, Museo Barracco, inv. 123
* Munich, Glyptothek, inv. 273
* Moscow, State Historical Museum (half-size).

== Bibliography ==

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* Boehringer, R. B. and Boehringer, E. 1939. ''Homer Bildnisse und Nachweise. Breslau.'' 19-41.
* Esdaile, K. A. 1912. ‘An Essay towards the Classification of Homeric Coin Types.’ ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'' 32: 298-325. 
* Richter, G. M. A. 1965. ''The Portraits of the Greeks'', vol. 1. London. 47-48.
* Richter, G. M. A. and Smith, R. R. R. 1984. ''The Portraits of the Greeks.'' 140-41.
* Schefold, K. and Bayard, A.-C. 1997. ''Die Bildnisse der Antiken Dichter, Redner und Denker.'' Basel. 92-93.
* Zanker, P. 1995. ''The Mask of Socrates : The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity'' (Shapiro, A., trans.). Berkeley. 14-22.
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