However, Philip’s reign was principally marked by an unsuccessful struggle with the emerging power of the Roman Republic. Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases. The alabaster mantle is a modern addition.Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition. A. M. Nielsen, ‘Det Graeske Ansigt’, in A.M. Nielsen (ed.), Ansigter (En Temabog, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1989), 28, fig. 26;

Philip V was succeeded by his eldest son Perseus, who ruled as the last king of Macedon. Bust of Philip V of Macedon He made no writings and is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers writing after his lifetime, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. Along with his teacher Plato, he is considered the “Father of Western Philosophy.” His writings cover many subjects and provided a complex synthesis of the various philosophies existing before him. Although Aristotle later classified the dialogue as a work of fiction, it remains today as a useful historical source about the great philosopher. Using the dialectical method (meaning dialogue) he started from a less precise definition and reached a more precise, valid and universal definition of concepts through intense dialogues with his interlocutors.A large part of the sculpture at the National Roman Museum consists of the bust of famous people from history. Busts from Ancient History In other words, he sought the absolute and rejected the relative; he studied the essence of morality and disregarded what he saw as more superficial moral issues. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

In ancient art, double herms were a common statue type. While in Greece they were displayed in public rooms, in the Roman empire they were shown in private spaces. [ citation needed] Thus, the combination of the two philosophers here owed something to the personal inclinations of the person who commissioned it, even if it is not clear why these two philosophers were linked in particular. Probably it has to do with the fact that they were both forced to commit suicide. The presentation of philosophers (and poets) as double herms was the most common use of this genre. This parallel presentation is also seen in literature, for example in the Parallel Lives of Plutarch. The Treasures of the British Museum: Art and Man (Exhibition Catalogue, Tokyo, 1990), 125, no. 123; Townley's description; ‘A head bearing a helmet, and placed upon a Terminus, with the name of Pericles, thus inscribed upon it, ПΕΡΙΚΛΕΣ. The portrait of this great warrior and legislator was not known in these days, until this Terminus, and another similar to it , but of a more modern style of sculpture, were discovered 1780 at the pianella [sic, for Pianura] di Cassio before mentioned’ (TY 12/3, street drawing room 20). The inscription actually reads ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ.Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. early Trajanic replica (Pandermalis); associated with Kresilas (Hinks, Fittschen, Muss and Schubert; queried by Lippold); Late Hellenistic lettering (Lawrence); seen by Pausanias (i.25.1, 28.2) on the Acropolis (Muss and Schubert). Gisela Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. I (London: Phaidon Press, 1965), 113 no. 13, figs. 513, 516