Kritios

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Roman copy of Kritios' Tyrannicides (Archaeological Museum, Naples).

Kritios (

Athenian sculptor, probably a pupil of Antenor, working in the early 5th century BCE, whose manner is on the cusp of the Late Archaic and the Severe style of Early Classicism in Attica. He was the teacher of Myron. With Nesiotes (Νησιώτης,) Kritios made the replacement of the Tyrannicides ("Tyrant-killers") group[1] by Antenor, which had been carried off by the Persians in the first stage of the Greco-Persian Wars.[2] The new group stood in the Agora of Athens
and its composition is known from Roman copies.

With Nesiotes Kritios made other statues, of bronze, dedicated on the

Neoclassical sculpture
, as it would have done if it had been known a century earlier.

See also

References

  1. ^ The "Tyrant-killers" (Τυραννοκτόνοι), Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the heroic lovers who slew the tyrant Hipparchus.
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The "Tyrant-killers" (Τυραννοκτόνοι), Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the heroic lovers who slew the tyrant

Hipparchus

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