Featured Bronze sculpture. Man with bird on knee, who is He?

Any idea who this is? It’s not mine. Roman fella?

 

i think he might be showing brain

apologies, but thats a nod to the late great matthew perry

 

I’m unfamiliar with that line but I’m afraid he may be a very masculine eunuch if that’s the case.

 

I think this supposed to be Ganymede and the eagle (Zeus).

 

What's the "pox" all over his body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

This could also be a young Zeus with his eagle (Aetos).

 

Ooh you’re good! One of those options looks quite likely! I never studied the Greeks in school. It would have been helpful to.

 

I assume it’s a bronze disease of sorts. I can’t tell if it’s very old and worn or a bad casting. I assume the latter.

 

it's Abbsus Maximus ...with his loyal bird Tweet !!!

 

Lets ask out classicist, @Bronwen.

 

Ganymede is an interesting thought, but I have yet to see a depiction that makes the youth so much larger than the eagle.





This is a seriously weird sculpture, starting with the pose, arms akimbo, a strap across the ridiculously muscled chest that you would expect to be holding a quiver at the back but seems to just peter out, if I'm reading the rather dark photo correctly. Wondering if the head derives from Michelangelo's David:



The bird is too small to be an eagle; more of a falcon or hawk. The young David was a shepherd, so it is not he. Ganymede has the usual story of a young shepherd who does not know he is the son of the king.

I'm inclined to see this as a neoclassical fantasy of the artist. Quite happy to learn something different.

 

An interesting little article I encountered along the way -
https://www.iflscience.com/why-do-ancient-greek-statues-have-such-small-penises-66304

 

well, i always thought they were normal sized

i do kind of agree though, and don't quite know why, maybe to desexualize as well. Its an interesting topic

 

I noticed the same about the size of the depiction of the eagle vs. man. I believe I did end up finding one or two where the bird was depicted much smaller but if I did it was the exception, not the rule. May be a fantasy. I just thought it was kind of interesting. I did make an offer for substantially below the sellers ask, at a price I couldn’t lose at. He so far hasn’t taken me up on it.