Name:	Bust of Sokrates
Picture:
Description:	Type B (Richter). Rome, Museum of the Terme. H. 0.35m. The antithesis of the handsome but not necessarily intellectual athlete, Sokrates is here presented as a cross between a satyr and a visionary. He has a high, bald forehead with curling hair at the side of his head, and a heavy, forked beard below a satyric snub nose, wide and tilted. There are lines across the forehead and at the bridge of the nose, and around the outer edge of the eyes. He has thick brows, and deep-set eyes which gaze upwards, and a wide, thick-lipped mouth.
Date:	c. 340-320 B.C.
Discussion:	Dubiously (although it is plausible) attributed to Lysippos. Diogenes Laertes 2.43 records that a portrait of Sokrates was set up in the Pomepeion soon after the philosopher's death, and that Lysippos was the artist responsible for it. In this case, as Pollitt says, 'soon after' meant seventy years, which may well be 'soon after' to Diogenes Laertes (Pollitt 1986: 52). See Stewart 1990: 188; 557-8 (ills.); Pollitt 1987: 52-3, fig. 45.