Apoxyomenos (Youth Scraping Himself)

In front of the Baths of Agrippa, Rome, during Tiberius' rule, 14-37 A.D. Stewart, T124: Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.62 (62) He (Lysippos) was a most prolific artist, and made more statues than any other sculptor, among them a Man Scraping Himself with a Strigil, which M. Agrippa dedicated in front of his baths, and which the emperor Tiberius was astonishingly fond of. Although at the beginning of his principate he kept control of himself, he was unable to do so in this case, and had the statue removed to his bedroom, substituting another in its place. But the Roman people became so indignant at this that they raised an outcry at the theater, shouting, "Give us back our Apoxyomenos!" So despite his admiration for it, the emperor returned it.