I
suoi principali interessi riguardano l’epigramma greco e latino,
letterario ed epigrafico (dalle origini fino ad Ausonio),
l’elegia ellenistica e romana, la
Appendix Vergiliana
e il dramma senecano.
Ha organizzato diversi Convegni
internazionale, pubblicandone gli Atti (
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Pliny,
nat. 34.81: The Bronze Sculptor Styppax of Cyprus
and the
Splanchnoptes
Antonio Corso
https://doi.org/10.60983/003-3.2
ABSTRACT
The author analyses the passage
of Pliny, nat. 34.81 concerning the Cypriot bronze
sculptor Styppax. The floruit of this artist is seen in
the context of the Athenian expedition to Cyprus of 451-449 BC.
His later activity at Athens and at Olympia is also considered
in detail. Styppax was renowned as the sculptor of a bronze
statue of Splanchnoptes, whose visual fortune is followed
from the 5th c. BC until the Hadrianic period. The
specialization of Styppax in this iconography is explained with
the importance of sacrifices of splanchna as well as of
the divination through splanchna on Cyprus. Finally,
Pliny’s report on Styppax and his specification that he was a
Cypriot may have been an oblique homage to the good omen
lavished on Titus by the priest of Paphian Aphrodite, which
probably determined the importance of this island in the circle
of the Flavian dynasty.
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