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The Siting of Demosthenes' Statue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Ian Worthington
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Abstract

It is suggested that Polyeuctus' statue of Demosthenes was placed next to the statue of Lycurgus in the Athenian Agora, and near Cephisidotus' Eirene and Plutus, to recall Demosthenes' support for the children of Lycurgus when they were prosecuted by Menesaechmus.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 81 , November 1986 , pp. 389
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1986

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References

1 Plut. Dem. 30. 5, cf. 31. 1–3, [Plut.] X.Or. 847A and D. On the statue see, for example, Bieber, M., The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age 2 (New York 1961) 66–7Google Scholar; Richter, G. M. A., The Portraits of the Greeks ii (London 1965) 215–23Google Scholar; Robertson, M., A Shorter History of Greek Art (Cambridge 1981) 189–90.Google Scholar

2 [Plut.] X. Or. 847A, Pausanias 1. 8. 2.

3 Pausanias 1. 8. 2. On this statue, see Bieber, op. cit. 14–15 and Robertson, op. cit. 138. 39.

4 According to Ps.-Plutarch (X. Or. 843C) a bronze portrait of Lycurgus was erected in the Cerameicus in the archonship of Anaxicrates (307/306). It is possible that the one in the Agora (see n. 2 above) was also set up in that year. Lycurgus died in 326.

5 Richter, op. cit. ii. 212.

6 Bieber, op. cit. 14–15, who believes that it was commissioned because ‘The Athenians at that time hoped that through peace prosperity would return to their impoverished city‘. Cf. Robertson, op. cit. 138: the first or second quarter of the fourth century.

7 [Plut.] X. Or. 842E.