Silanion
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Silanion was the best-known of the Greek portrait-sculptors working during the fourth century BC. Pliny gives his floruit as the 113th Olympiad, that is, around 328–325 BCE, and records he had no famo
Tragic mask in bronze, attributed to Silanion. Museum of Piraeus, Athens, Greece.
Plato, Roman copy of Silanion's work (Glyptothek, Munich)
Corinna
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Corinna or Korinna was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Tanagra in Boeotia. Although ancient sources portray her as a contemporary of Pindar, not all modern scholars accept the accuracy of this tradit
Silanion
…before the age of portraiture. The best copy of Plato is in the Glyptothek of Munich (illustration). 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, and an…
Corinna of Tanagra, c. 1893, by Frederic Leighton
According to ancient tradition, Corinna was a pupil of Myrtis of Anthedon, with whom she sits in this painting by Ernst Stückelberg.
Corinna: The Lyric Muse, c. 1855, by William Brodie
Ancient marble sculpture of Corinna, possibly a copy of Silanion's bronze mentioned by Tatian