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An image of Apollo, known from a relief base in Sorrento and six freestanding sculptures, represents Apollo as kitharoidos, wearing peplos and shoulder-pinned back mantle and holding a kithara. The original has often been attributed to the Greek sculptor Skopas of Paros. A closer examination of this Apollo's iconography and stylistic peculiarities makes it clear that the original statue was an early Augustan classicizing work. The image of Apollo on the Sorrento Base, freed from any literary associations and analyzed as an independent statue type, is found to be late Hellenistic in style and Roman in concept. No two reflections of this type are alike in style or size, yet all retain the same distinctive iconography. It is concluded that this Apollo type represents the cult statue of Apollo Palatinus dedicated by Augustus in 28 B.C.\* The Temple of Apollo on the Palatine hill in Rome was dedicated on 9 October 28 B.C. by the victorious Octavian, and was one of the earliest in his long series of impressive monuments.' The poet Propertius was evidently present and marveled at the image of Apollo within the shrine: deinde inter matrem deus ipse interque sororem pythius in longa carmina

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Author

Linda Jones Roccos

Published

1989

Language

EL

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)