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Greek portrait - the game to decide all games

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Phidippides:
Since these Greek portraits have been easy pickings for readers here, I thought I would provide one more to decide the winner.  This time I will declare winners based on a correct answer, rather than just the first correct answer (in case someone is late to seeing this post).  Remember - no cheating!  >:(   

The first image is the full-length copy (reconstruction?) of the original portrait, and the second is a Roman portrait bust copy.

[CC-BY-2.5 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)],(Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011)), from Wikimedia Commons

donroc:
Wild guess--Demosthenes.

Phidippides:
Uh, funny.  Very funny. I didn't see that.  I will have to submit a new portrait.  My bad!  :o

skiguy:

Phidippides:
Ok - so that previous one, if you didn't read the inscription on the base, was Demosthenes, by Polyuektos.  He is depicted with a kind of worn look on his face (and reflected in his posture), which echoed his perceived disposition during his lifetime.  This represents a kind of shift in Greek portraiture, away from the role-portraits seen in earlier, Classical Greek portraits. 

Anyway, on to the real deciding portrait.  Here it is!

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