ABSTRACT
The collection of Asinius Pollio1 stands between the private and the public domain and as such presents one strand of the 'intellectual humanist' approach to Greek art: interest in and respect of Greek art, put into the service of the Roman art. Unlike other collections discussed by Pliny (except perhaps of the Horti Servilliani), this one is treated by the writer as a unity and as evidence of Pollio's interest both in art and in the public benefit.
