Luna marble, 1st century A.D.
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. 409

It has been thought that the emaciated features of this old man with untrimmed beard are a portrait of the blind Homer. To him we owe, in the Odyssey, the description of the garden in the palace of Alcinous, on the island of the Phaeaces, the land of benevolent nature and eternal springtime.