Statues
“recycled honorific images”
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Alexanders · a hundred Alexanders · images · the image · the statues
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Lucullus
Hypothetical set of identical bronze statues of Alexander the Great, used as a thought experiment about indistinguishability.
could not Lysippus, with the same bronze, the same tempering, the same graver, water, and all else, make a hundred Alexanders of the same kind?
Orations
Bronze honorific statues in Rhodes that are reused by removing old names and engraving new ones rather than commissioning new works.
And indeed the matter of standing in a public place is most ridiculous, if anyone considers it a sign that the statues do not belong to those who received them, but to the city.
That, then, the matter of registration and of standing in a public place is nothing against the statues belonging to those who received them, has perhaps long been plain;
for the magistrate points out whichever he pleases of these dedicated statues;