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“Excellent Offerings”: The Lausos Collection in Constantinople

In the early years of the fifth century c.e., Lausos, an aristocrat at the court of Theodosios II (402–450), formed a collection of ancient statuary for display in the city of Constantinople. Included in the ensemble were such famous works of Greco-Roman antiquity as the Zeus by Pheidias from Olympia and the Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles. This article proposes that the Lausos gathering, which always has been considered a private one, was in fact a public display designed to express Theodosian policy regarding the fate of classical statuary and, along with it, Hellenic tradition in an increasingly Christian world.