Three figures added from the Museum of Classical Archaeology’s cast collection.
Frankfurt Athena (Minerva): From a Roman copy of a bronze original group of Athena and Marsyas, of c.450 BCE. Purchased from Dresden in 1970.
Sleeping Ariadne: Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze original. The theme shown here is that of the troubled sleep the Ariadne endures. Purchased from the Louvre in 1884.
Antinous as Dionysos: The Emperor Hadrian had made a number of sculptures of Antinous in the guise of various gods. Roman original in marble and bronze of the 2nd century CE. Transferred from the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1884.