Herakleides - San Jose, CA - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

This sculpture is located in San Jose's Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
It is made from limestone and is dated c. 100 AD.
It depicts the Greek philosopher Herakleides as a middle-aged amn wearinf a toga. He has close-cropped hair and a serious countenance. The work is much smaller than life-sized..probably just about 2 feet tall. There is no artist mentioned.

Wikipedia (visit link) adds:

"Heraclides Ponticus ... 390 BC – c. 310 BC), also known as Herakleides and Heraklides of Pontus, was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who lived and died at Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Eregli, Turkey. He is best remembered for proposing that the earth rotates on its axis, from west to east, once every 24 hours. He is also frequently hailed as the originator of the heliocentric theory, although this is doubted....
...Heraclides seems to have been a versatile and prolific writer on philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, physics, history and rhetoric, notwithstanding doubts about attribution of many of the works. It appears that he composed various works in dialogue form."

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