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survive. Both are of simple ideal type, the Sappho not strictly a portrait, since Sappho (sixth century BC) lived before the age of portraiture. The best copy of the Plato is in the
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370 BC. Later copies of it and of an idealized portrait head of
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Silanion wrote a treatise on proportions that is mentioned by
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Museum of Piraeus
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Glyptothek, Munich
Greek
Greek portrait-sculptors
Pliny
floruit
Olympiad
Natural History
Plato
Mithridates of Persia
Academy of Athens
Sappho
Glyptothek
Munich
Corinna
Achilles
Ares
Theseus
Plutarch
Vitruvius
Diogenes Laërtius
Favorinus
Another copy in the Capitoline Museums, Rome
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