Ancient Portraits from the Athenian Agora by Evelyn B. Harrison (Agora Picture Book, 5)
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Overview: When Pausanias visited the Athenian Agora around the middle of the 2nd century after Christ, he found it full of statues not only of gods and heroes but also of men.
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. Still, the excavations of the Agora have yielded many fine portraits: original marble heads, herms and busts of men and women whose names are rarely known to us but whose faces, expressive, individual, and sometimes even beautiful, give us a vivid sense of nearness to the ancient world.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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