Searching for Skopas in Rome

In my paper I would like to focus some aspects connected to the presence of the Skopas masterpieces in Rome, between the Republican and Imperial Roman Ages. First of all, it is important to consider the high number of these statues, in fact in a total of twenty four subjects, that we can ascribe to Skopas thanks to the literary sources, seven of them were transferred in Rome: the Hestia in the horti serviliani; the Apollo in the temple of the Palatine hill; the Canephoros in the Atrium libertatis; the group of Achilles, Poseidon, Tethys and marine thiasos in the temple of Neptune in Circo; the colossal statue of Ares in the temple of Mars in Circo ; the Aphrodite in the temple of Mars in Circo too; the double herm of Hermes probably to identify with the Ianus Pater in the temple of Ianus, by the Wernicke hypothesis. Certainly, this consistence presence of sculpture has increased the reputation of Skopas with the roman public and the best evidence is in the high number of copies that we have in Rome, still today.