Editing Hypereides (section)

== Portraits ==
Portraits of Hypereides are known to have existed in antiquity: a papyrus fragment from Egypt records that the Athenians honored him with statues after their liberation from [[Demetrius of Phalerum]] in 307 BCE, and an inscribed base, once in the [[Villa Mattei]] in Rome but now lost, bore a statue of Hyperides signed by the artist Zeuxiades.<ref name=Richter>{{cite book |last=Richter |first=G. M. A. |author-link=Gisela Richter |title=The Portraits of the Greeks |location=London |publisher=Phaidon |year=1965 |volume=II |pages=210-211 |url=https://archive.org/details/portraitsofgreek0002unse/page/210/}}</ref> No inscribed portrait of Hypereides survives, however, and no existing ancient portrait type can be securely identified with him.<ref name=Richter/> In 1913, Frederik Poulsen suggested that a double herm of the Roman period in the [[Musée Antoine Vivenel|Musée Vivenel]] in [[Compiègne]], which bears a portrait of a bearded man on one side and a portrait of a woman on the other, represented Hypereides and Phryne;<ref>{{cite journal | last=Poulsen | first=Frederik | title=Un portrait de l'orateur Hypéride | journal=Monuments et mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot | volume=21 | issue=1 | year=1913 | pages=47–58 | doi=10.3406/piot.1913.1780 }}</ref> as a result, the male portrait type, which exists in at least half a dozen Roman versions, is now commonly referred to as Hypereides.<ref name=Richter/> The style of the portrait that lies behind these copies seems to fit the late 4th or early 3rd century BCE.<ref>{{cite book |last=Richter |first=G. M. A. |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=R. R. R. |title=The Portraits of the Greeks |edition=abridged and revised |location=Cambridge  |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1984 |pages=150-151}}</ref> Poulsen's argument has not been universally accepted, however, and critics have described it as "dubious"<ref>{{cite book |last=Lawrence |first=A. W. |title=Classical Sculpture |place=London |publisher=Jonathan Cape |year=1929 |page=259 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.157882/page/n262/}}</ref> and "speculative".<ref>{{cite book |first=Bernard |last=Frischer |title= The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece |place=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |year=2023 |at=p. 269, note 225}}</ref>