STYPPAX

An Academic Resource for the Study of Cypriot Sculpture

Pliny N.H. 34.81: Styppax the Cypriote is famed for one statue, the splanchnoptes; the subject of this statue was a slave of the Olympian Pericles roasting entrails and kindling a fire with the breath from his puffed-out cheeks.
Translation from J. Pollitt, The Art of Ancient Greece: Sources and Documents (Cambridge, 1990).

Styppax is updated and maintained by Derek B. Counts.

Distinguished Professor
Department of Art History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201
dbc@uwm.edu (reach out with suggestions!)

Last update: Fall 2024