Title

Marble portrait bust of Homer, Roman, from Baiae, Campania, Italy, 1st-2nd century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Marble portrait bust of Homer, Roman, from Baiae, Campania, Italy, 1st-2nd century. The blind poet, Homer, is thought to have lived in Greece around 750 to 700 BC. He is the most famous poet of all antiquity; the author of the Iliad and Odyssey, epic poems focussing respectively upon the heroes Achilles and Odysseus. From the British Museum's collection.

Date

1th century

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon

Reference

HRM19B75_094

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,3Mb (1,8Mb) / 12,2in x 15,9in / 3674 x 4781 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy arts country Rome sculpture art color colour Classical Greek Greece Roman location bust literature artefact mythology artifact poetry poet Greek mythology CM Dixon TGN Homer portrait object Unknown marble Dixon CM CM Dixon Mike Dixon CM Dixon marble object portrait