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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4635230, member: 110504&quot;]Thank you for this.&nbsp; The interval you identify (Civil Wars -Flavians) has to strike me as one high point of the influence of Hellenism on Roman coin portraiture.&nbsp; As noted by Magnus Maximus on the first page of the thread. </p><p>...Right, you knew this, but across several media, the Hellenistic aesthetic had that much to do with a shift from the idealized &#039;realism&#039; of Hellenism to something more nearly approaching &#039;realism for realism&#039;s sake.&#039;&nbsp; Often subtle, or even implicit, but often enough not.</p><p>And some overwhelming number of extant Hellenistic sculptures are copies from the Roman period.&nbsp; ...Likely as not by Grecophones, whether they were working <i>in situ,</i> or imported to Rome from (to mix historical metaphor) the colonies.</p><p>I have to wonder whether, at least from the reign of Nero, well into the Flavian era, an already powerful Hellenistic component was amplified, sometimes to a pitch of realism which rivals or even surpasses that of its prototypes.&nbsp; With the tenor of the times (most obviously during the post-Neronian civil wars) acting as one principal catalyst of the attendant acceleration of what was already, in the Roman context, a dynamic aesthetic trend.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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