Document Type
Article
Version
Publisher's PDF
Publication Title
American Journal of Archaeology
Volume
102
Publication Date
10-1-1998
Abstract
Standard assumptions about the portrait of Anakreon known through works of the Roman period are here reviewed in light of all available evidence. Pausanias's mention of a statue of the Ionic poet on the Athenian Akropolis has led to extensive conjectures about Anakreon's relationship to Perikles' family and the message such a monument was meant to convey. The possibility is raised that the known portrait was created later than ca. 440, and, more specifically, that the full-body representation now in Copenhagen served the requirements.
Publisher's Statement
© 1998 by Archaeological Institute of America. Publisher's version available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/506097.
Citation
Ridgway, Brunilde S. 1998. An Issue of Methodology: Anakreon, Perikles, Xanthippos. American Journal of Archaeology 102:717-738.
DOI
10.2307/506097
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