Testing friends

Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forgo a test of your companions. You can manage this if you pretend to be in want when really you lack nothing. Isocrates. To Demonicus. Chapter 1. Section 24.

One of Two Boys Fighting Over a Game of Knucklebones 1st century CE Roman copy of 2nd century BCE Greek original excavated in Rome. Part of the "Body Beautiful In Ancient Greece" exhibit photographed at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon.

Note:Greece became dominated by the Romans following the Roman victory over the Corinthians, at the Battle of Corinth in 146 BCE. Thereafter, many Greek sculptors went to Rome to obtain Roman patronage for their work. Whenever you see a reference to a Roman copy of a Greek original, it indicates these works were created during the Roman period, but were often produced by Greek sculptors During this time, common people, women, children, animals, and domestic scenes became acceptable subjects for sculpture, which were commissioned by wealthy families for the adornment of their homes and gardens. Unlike the Classical period, sculptors no longer felt obliged to depict people as ideals of beauty or physical perfection.