Name:	Youth Slaying a Bull
Picture:
Description:	Neo-Attic relief. Unknown provenance. Present location unknown. Powerfully-built naked youth stands in profile, cloak flying about his shoulders and draped about his waist. His left hand grasps the bull's muzzle, pulling its head back, and the right hand tugs at the beast's horn. The bull is on its knees, its tail thrashing madly.
Date:	150-86 B.C.
Discussion:	In the last century of the Republic, Roman taste for Greek art became voracious. The Romans began to import Neo-Attic art when the stream of true Classical art began to dry up, and enterprising Greeks took care to develop a style most palatable to Roman taste, producing original works and altered copies of Classical pieces. Ornate flying draperies were tremendously popular on Neo-Attic work. See Pollitt 1986: 169-72; Stewart 1990: 229-30 for more information.