Itinerant Greek Sculpture in Roman Italy and Greece and the Temple of Apollo Sosianus on the Campus Martius in Rome

Gianfranco Adornato is Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa and scientific director of the archaeological excavations at Agrigento. His main fields of interest are Greek and Roman sculpture; the western Greek world and the issue of ‘colonization’; the reception of Greek Art in Roman contexts; and aesthetics. Publications include the dited volumes Beyond “Art Collections”. Owning and Accumulating Objects from Greek and Roman Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (2020), and the exhibition catalogue Il Catalogo del Mondo: Plinio il Vecchio e la storia della Natura (2024). Suzan van de Velde holds a PhD from Leiden University (2023) and is curator Mediterranean collections at the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in Leiden since 2025. Her research interests include Greek and Roman sculpture, object biographies, cultural dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean and reception. Her dissertation, entitled Moving Statues, investigated the agency and impact of Greek statues in the city of Rome and was written in the framework of the Gravity Grant programme Anchoring Innovation. Recent publications include ‘Les inventaires et le rôle de la statuaire grecque dans la Rome antique’, Perspective (2022) 95-108. Miguel John Versluys is Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University and one of the PI’s of the Gravity Grant programme Anchoring Innovation. His research focuses on the cultural dynamics that characterise the global ancient world. Recent publications include Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World. Nemrud Dağ and Commagene under Antiochos I (2017) as well as the edited volumes Canonisation as Innovation. Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BCE (2022) and Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman Spolia. Objects, Appropriation and Cultural Change (2023), both part of the Euhormos series.Contributors are: Gianfranco Adornato; Gabriella Cirucci; Francesca D’Andrea; Jane Fejfer; Hans Rupprecht Goette; Natsuko Himino; Pavlina Karanastasi; Eric M. Moormann; Olga Palagia; Marina Sabatini; Suzan van de Velde; Miguel John Versluys; Caroline Vout