English pdf - athenian agora excavations

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Bronze statues of statesmen, philosophers and poets that were erected in athens during the greek period furnished the models for portraits of these famous men ...
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Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 5 Prepared by Evelyn B. Harrison Photographs by Alison Frantz Produced by The Meriden Gravure Company Meriden, Connecticut Cover Design: Marble portrait head, perhaps of Aelius Verus (see 13). Design 011 Title Page: Medallion &om a terracotta bowl, perhaps Augustus. P 19267, about actual size. ANCIENT PORTRAITS FROM THE ATHENIAN AGORA AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS PRINCETON. NEW JERSEY. 1960 STATUES IN THE ANCIENT AGORA FTER the statues of the Eponymoi (I on plan opposite) are statues of gods, A, mphiaraos and Eirene carrying the child Ploutos. Here also is a bronze figure of Lykourgos, son of Lykophron, and of Kallias . . . There is one of Demosthenes . . . Near the figure of Demosthenes is the sanctuary of Ares (2) . . . Around the temple stand Herakles and Theseus, Apollo binding his hair with a fillet, statues of Kallias . . . of Pindar . . . not far away are the statues of Harmodios and Aristogeiton (3) . . . Of t...
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