Quote Originally Posted by Christianus View Post
abou: many roman statues were copies of hellenistic and classical sculpture. For example the statue of Augustus in Prima Porta adapted from the classical bronze statue Doryphoros, to carry Augustus message of a new age with him as Princeps. But also the romans had their own, and they adapted their own styles. Usually this was part of imperial propaganda, were Augustus is portrayed as muscular, compared to how he probably realy was; skinny. Also the romans compared to the greek helenistic statues specially during republican times, tried to portray people realistic; old people with wrencles.
Yeah, of course the Romans have their own. I don't have four books on Greek and Roman art and took a graduate-level course in the subject to not know that. Roman Verism, has often been hypothesized as being overdone - overemphasizing wrinkles and scarring - whereas Hellenistic Verism, a departure from the perfection of the Hellenistic era, tends for the more dramatic.

That being said, a lot of surviving Roman artwork have been shown to be copies of Hellenistic ones.

And to eat bread, you need corn. The legionaries carried corn, not bread.
And your point is?