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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 89 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SILANION , a

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Greek sculptor of the 4th

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . He was noted as a portrait-sculptor . Of two of his

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WORKS

works, his heads of

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PLATO

Plato and of

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SAPPHO (7th–6th centuries B.C.)

Sappho, we possess what seem to be copies . Both are of

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SIMPLE

simple ideal type, the latter of course not strictly a portrait, since Sappho lived before the

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AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of portraits . The best copy of the Plato is in the Vatican .

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