Wyatt Walker poses for a 3-D scan of the sculpture's missing right arm Courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art The North Carolina Museum of Art’s statue of Roman wine god Bacchus is, essentially, ...

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Pity the Romans. Their sculpture is often compared unfavorably to that of the Greeks. While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, ...

Lecturer in Classical Studies, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London; Assistant Director of Archaeology, British School at Rome; Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie University, ...