A. Corso. (pp. 452–462)

Author

A. Corso ()

Keywords\n Ancient Greece, Corinth, Pausanias, the statue of Aphrodite, Hermogenes of Cythera, Praxiteles’ Aphrodite

Pages\n 452–462

Summary\n

The aim of this note is to retrieve the style of the statue of Aphrodite set up in the agora (forum) of the Roman colony of Corinth and seen by Pausanias 2. 2. 8. The recognition of how this statue looked like will lead to a likely suggestion about the age of flourishing of this sculptor. Hermogenes of Cythera is known only from this passage of Pausanias. Hermogenes’ Aphrodite probably was represented on coin types of the Roman colony of Corinth. It is likely that Praxiteles’ bronze Aphrodite stood in the agora of Corinth, perhaps in the same place where at a later moment Hermogenes’ Aphrodite was set up, but Hermogenes’ statue was not a faithful copy of Praxiteles’ Aphrodite.

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