Food for Thoughts – IDEAS in WORDS, IMAGES, and MEDICINE

Fragment - relief of two horses and a hand (presumed briddle and chariot) - from the Augustan era

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Keywords: BRIDE BRIDDLE REIN HORSE CHARIOT SCULPTURE BAS RELIEF

Herm of the so-called Sophokles (497-406 BC)

Year: BC

Author: Roman copy from a Greek original

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Keywords: SOPHOCLES TRAGEDY ASCELPIUS AESCULAPIUS ESCULAPIUS ESCULAPIO ALTAR ANTIGONE THEATER PLAY MEDICINE

Relief with Dancing Maenads

Year: 55 -

Author: Dionysiac Scene

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Keywords: DANCE MAENAD MEANDER CALLIMACHUS BACCHANT TRANCE ECSTASY DIONYSUS LEAF

Head of Demosthenes on a Cuirassed Bust - Antonine era - 2nd century AD

Year: c 38 BC

Author: Polyeuctus Copy from an original by

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Keywords: DEMOSTHENES DEMOCHARES POLYEUCTUS POLITICIAN ORATOR ORATORY SUICIDE ALEXANDER GREAT POLITICS

Portrait bust of either Alcibiades or a Greek athlete Polydamas of Skotoussa (5th c BC) (known as Alcibiades) (profile)

Year: 337 BC

Author: Lysippus Roman copy of a bust perhaps by

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Keywords: HERO HEROIC HERA MILITARY ORATOR POLITICIAN PLANNER ATHLETE OLYMPIA LYSIPPUS

Roman copy of Esculapio or Aesculapius - tipo

Year: 4th BC

Author: from the Isola Tiberina - Farnese Collection Roman replica of a IV c. original -

Location: Museo Archeologico Nationale, Naples, Italy

Keywords: ESCULAPIUS AESCULAPIUS ROD STICK STAFF WAND CADUCEUS SANDAL SHOE TOES FOOT FEET AMBULATORY PERIPATHETIC ROUNDS ASCLEPIUS AESCLEPIUS ESCULAPIO AESCULAPUS ESCULAPIO ESCULAPIUS ASKLEPIOS AESKLIPIAS STAFF MEDICINE EMBLEM HEALING SNAKE PAEAN HEALER HIPPOCRATES OATH

Busto con testa di Tito (38-81 AD) from the Flavian era

Author: Unknown Greek Sculptor

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Keywords: FACE SQUARE BROAD EMPEROR ROMAN TITUS FAMILY TRAIT PATERNAL

Pothos, from and original by Scopos

Year: 340 BC

Author: Copy by unknown Greek sculptor

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Keywords: MALE FEMINIZED EFFEMINATE EROTES BUTTOCK PEITHO HARMONIA ANTEROS PSEUDO HERMAPHRODITE POTHOS POTABLE HOMOSEXUAL WINE SEX EROTIC LOVE HIMEROS HYMENAIOS HYMEN BRIDE

Pothos

Year: 340 BC

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Keywords: FEMINIZED FEMINIZATION POTHOS EROTES HYPOGONADISM MALE HERMAPHRIDITISM HOMOSEXUAL CUPID APHRODITE

Busto con testa di Vespasiano (9 - 79 AD) from the Flavian era

Author: Unknown Greek Sculptor

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Keywords: EMPEROR ROMAN ROME VESPASIAN FACE SQUARE BROAD FAMILIAL TRAIT FACIES BROAD INHERITANCE FLAVIAN ASSASSINATION ASSASIN DOMITIAN TITUS COLOSSEUM