Ancient Portraits from the Athenian Agora. Photographs by Alison Frantz. Excavat
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Einband leicht berieben. Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. - The important portraits were of bronze, and most of them were melted down in the troubled times of late antiquity, when the Athenians themselves completed the destruction of their monuments that barbarian invaders had begun in 267 A.D. This is the reason why not one of the statues which Pausanias mentions seeing in the Agora has come down to us. We know the Tyrannicides, Demosthenes, and the figure of Eirene (Peace) holding the child Ploutos (Wealth) in her arms only from marble copies which were made in Roman times.
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