I recently wrote a paper about Plato, and when I looked him up in my history book (The Western Heritage by Kagan) I found the picture below on the same page. The caption in the book read:
Quote:The striding god from Artemisium is a bronze statue dating from about 460 B.C.E. It was found in the sea near Artemisium, the northern tip of the large Greek island of Euboea, and is now on display in the Athens archaeological museum. Exactly whom he represents is not known. Some have thought him to be Posiedon holding a trident; others believe he is Zeus hurling a thunderbolt. In either case, he is a splendid representative of the early Classical period of Greek sculpture.
I did some selective blurring to make the image somewhat less objectionable. Anyway, when I first glanced at the image, I immediately thought,
Look! It's a Greek slinger! Is it just my imagination, or does he look like he's holding a sling (very close to the release on a figure-8)? I was thinking that perhaps the statue was originally made with a real sling attached to him, but it decayed/fell apart over time leaving the slinger behind. Any ideas?