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of this kind, showing how, out of the sayings of these old men, their character
had been read, and brought to marvellous expression. In heads of Homer, the
blind old man and divinely inspired singer of Greek imagination seems repre-
sented to us bodily in two different types.I2lS In the head of Hippocrates, we
see the kindly and genial physician. So, probably, the ideal of Socrates was
now developed under the immediate influence of Plato's vivid description of
the great philosopher.

Numbers of portrait-statues of a similar character must also have existed, of

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Fig. 258. Portrait Head in Bronze. From Kyrene. British Museum.

which a few are happily preserved to us. Such are the Diogenes of the Villa
Albani, the remarkable seated Aristotle of the Palazzo Spada alia Regola, the
so-called Anacreon and Pindar or Alcaios of the Villa Borghese, as well as the
^Eschines of the Naples Museum.121? In all these statues, portraiture seems to
be rendered in the pose and build of the whole frame, and not in the head alone,
as is the case with Roman portraits. Compared, on the other hand, with por-
traits of the fourth century B.C., such as the Mausolos and the Sophocles, how
much greater the realism here!

With these few admirable portrait-statues, we close our survey of the tie-