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RISE OF ATHENIAN ART.
95
Endceus' works. There is a seated figure of Athene, now at Athens,1
in very archaic style, which was found under the Acropolis at the
exit of the grotto of Agraulos ; and a cognate figure, also of Pallas,
discovered near the Erechtheium,2 which, as some think, may give us
an idea of the style of Endceus.
ANTENOR the Athenian, 01. 67. 3-75. 1 (510-480 B.C.), made
the first portrait-statues of the Tyrannicides, Harmodius and Aris-
togciton, in bronze, which were carried away by Xerxes after the
destruction of Athens. They were subsequently restored to the
Athenians by Antiochus3 (or Alexander the Great,1 or Seleucus '),
and set up in the Cerameicus in Athens, near the Temple of Ares
(Mars), beside the new figures of the same heroes by Critias. Con-
temporary with Anterior was
AMPI1ICRATES, who made the famous statue of Letena, the
faithful mistress of Harmodius(/j'/v? cantu familiarisHarmodio et Aris-
togeitoni), who died under the torture rather than betray her friend/'
After the expulsion of the Persians, the Athenians, desirous of com-
memorating her heroic deed, but unwilling to set up the statue of a
harlot in a public place, hit on the expedient of representing her
under the form of a tougueless lioness, thus expressing her courage
by the form of the noblest of beasts and her silence by the lacking
tongue.7
About the same period, or somewhat later, lived
ARISTOCLES, only known to us by extant inscriptions.1* The
name is especially interesting from its connexion with the famous
stele of Aristion, which is considered1 to belong to the 80th 01.
(B.C. 460).
The three artists Hegias (Megesias), Kritios, and Ncsiotes are
1 Vide infra, p. 99.
■ Brunn, A'.-G. i. 98.
' Bausan. i. 8. 5. I'lin. -\". //. 9-
4 Anian. Aim/', lii. 16. 7.
' Valor. Max. ii. 10, ixl. I.
• I'lin. N. //. xxxiv. 72. Bausan. i. 23 I.
: Plutarch, Dc Camil. 8.
" Athenische Inschrift, Bullet, d. Instil.
1859. p. 195, and Corpus Insc. Gnrc. i. p. ;S,
No. 23. Overb. Gcs. d. Plastik, i. us'
note 58.
' K.-G. p. 106. Vide infra, p. 106.
95
Endceus' works. There is a seated figure of Athene, now at Athens,1
in very archaic style, which was found under the Acropolis at the
exit of the grotto of Agraulos ; and a cognate figure, also of Pallas,
discovered near the Erechtheium,2 which, as some think, may give us
an idea of the style of Endceus.
ANTENOR the Athenian, 01. 67. 3-75. 1 (510-480 B.C.), made
the first portrait-statues of the Tyrannicides, Harmodius and Aris-
togciton, in bronze, which were carried away by Xerxes after the
destruction of Athens. They were subsequently restored to the
Athenians by Antiochus3 (or Alexander the Great,1 or Seleucus '),
and set up in the Cerameicus in Athens, near the Temple of Ares
(Mars), beside the new figures of the same heroes by Critias. Con-
temporary with Anterior was
AMPI1ICRATES, who made the famous statue of Letena, the
faithful mistress of Harmodius(/j'/v? cantu familiarisHarmodio et Aris-
togeitoni), who died under the torture rather than betray her friend/'
After the expulsion of the Persians, the Athenians, desirous of com-
memorating her heroic deed, but unwilling to set up the statue of a
harlot in a public place, hit on the expedient of representing her
under the form of a tougueless lioness, thus expressing her courage
by the form of the noblest of beasts and her silence by the lacking
tongue.7
About the same period, or somewhat later, lived
ARISTOCLES, only known to us by extant inscriptions.1* The
name is especially interesting from its connexion with the famous
stele of Aristion, which is considered1 to belong to the 80th 01.
(B.C. 460).
The three artists Hegias (Megesias), Kritios, and Ncsiotes are
1 Vide infra, p. 99.
■ Brunn, A'.-G. i. 98.
' Bausan. i. 8. 5. I'lin. -\". //. 9-
4 Anian. Aim/', lii. 16. 7.
' Valor. Max. ii. 10, ixl. I.
• I'lin. N. //. xxxiv. 72. Bausan. i. 23 I.
: Plutarch, Dc Camil. 8.
" Athenische Inschrift, Bullet, d. Instil.
1859. p. 195, and Corpus Insc. Gnrc. i. p. ;S,
No. 23. Overb. Gcs. d. Plastik, i. us'
note 58.
' K.-G. p. 106. Vide infra, p. 106.