Showing posts with label Lysippus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lysippus. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

A Tetradrachm for your Thoughts

Here's a portrait of Alexander the Great as Zeus Ammon (check out the ram's horns, symbolizing divinity) on a silver tetradrachm of Lysimachus, 297–281 bc, thought to be a copy of a portrait by Lysippus; in the British Museum. Diameter 30 mm. Click on the Encyclopedia Britannica for more.


According to Wikipedia, "Lysippus' sculpture, which is opposite to his often vigorous portrayal, especially in coinage of the time, is thought to be the most faithful depiction of Alexander."

Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.