Title: Classical Tyrannicides
Context: From Athens, Agora
Summary: Harmodios and Aristogeiton
Object Function: Honorary
Sculptor: Literary attestation to Kritios and Nesiotes
Material: Bronze
Sculpture Type: Free-standing portrait statue
Category: Original/copies
Style: Early Classical
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Original (lost)
Date: exact 477 BC
Scale: Slightly over life-size
Region: Attica
Period: Early Classical

Subject Description: Harmodios and Aristogeiton, who slew Hipparchos. The statue was commissioned to replace the original, created by Antenor (ca. 611), that had been carried off by Xerxes (they were later restored to Athens, by Antiochos, according to Paus 1.8.5; Alexander the Great, according to Arrian, Anabasis 3.16.7-8 and Pliny, NH 34.70; and Seleukos, according to Valerius Maximus 2.10 ext. 1).

Condition: Lost

Sources Used: Richter 1984, 124-26; Richter 1970d, 154-56

Other Bibliography: Robertson 1975, 185-86; Brunnsaaker 1971; Metzler 1971, 182 f.