Timarchos, Kephisodot the Younger, Mission head of the comedy poet Menander, property of the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen and marble, chiseled, smoothed, marble, Total: Height: 38.5 cm; Width: 22 cm; Depth: 23 cm (ca. ), Sculptures, Portrait, Man, Head, Face, Writer, Poet, Author, Menander, Adoptive Emperor, Middle Empire, High Hellenistic, The Greek Molière was called Menander, the founder and most famous representative of the New Comedy, who was born in 342/1 B.C. and drowned in Piraeus at the age of 52 while swimming. Of his 108 or 109 comedies, 96 titles have survived, whereby, apart from the Discolos, the Misanthrope, and the Epitrepontes, the Arbitration Court, unfortunately only a few dramas have survived in larger parts. The portrait with the somewhat mocking mouth part shows Menander as a bearded man in advanced age. It is one of more than seventy known circular sculptural repetitions, which probably go back to the seated statue made by the Praxiteles sons Kephisodot the Younger and Timarchos, which was erected in the Dionysus Theater in Athens after Menander's death. In his beardless nature, Menander follows a fashion first introduced by Alexander the Great and the Diadochi.

Timarchos, Kephisodot the Younger, Mission head of the comedy poet Menander, property of the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen and marble, chiseled, smoothed, marble, Total: Height: 38.5 cm; Width: 22 cm; Depth: 23 cm (ca. ), Sculptures, Portrait, Man, Head, Face, Writer, Poet, Author, Menander, Adoptive Emperor, Middle Empire, High Hellenistic, The Greek Molière was called Menander, the founder and most famous representative of the New Comedy, who was born in 342/1 B.C. and drowned in Piraeus at the age of 52 while swimming. Of his 108 or 109 comedies, 96 titles have survived, whereby, apart from the Discolos, the Misanthrope, and the Epitrepontes, the Arbitration Court, unfortunately only a few dramas have survived in larger parts. The portrait with the somewhat mocking mouth part shows Menander as a bearded man in advanced age. It is one of more than seventy known circular sculptural repetitions, which probably go back to the seated statue made by the Praxiteles sons Kephisodot the Younger and Timarchos, which was erected in the Dionysus Theater in Athens after Menander's death. In his beardless nature, Menander follows a fashion first introduced by Alexander the Great and the Diadochi.

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