Head of Thucydides

Marble. Portrait head of 4th century BC type. Front facing, with moustache and beard, short curly hair. The portrait is a copy, probably late Hellenistic, of a lost Greek work of the early 4th century BC. The Holkham Hall bust is another copy of the same original, probably Hadrianic. The bust protrays the famous Greek general and distinguished historian, Thucydides, who lives from about 460-400 BC. His detailed History of the Peloponnesian War has earned him a place among the fathers of the study of history.