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Cover 1 The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of Illustrations 10 Foreword 14 Acknowledgments 20 Introduction 24 Part I: } Births and Growing Pains: The Tyrannicides Between Glory and Outrage 36 1. First Scene: The Murder of Hipparchus 38 2. Date of Birth Unknown: Antenor’s Tyrannicides 46 3. A Second Birth: The Statuary Group Produced by Critius and Nesiotes 58 4. The Artist’s Studio as a Playground: Iconographic Variations Based on the Tyrannicides (c. 470–411 b.c.) 70 5. The Disorders of a Thankless Age: The Oligarchic Revolution of 411 b.c. and Its Consequences 80 6. Their Finest Hour: The Revived Glory of the Statuary Group in the Restored Democracy (403 b.c.) 94 Part II: } The Age of Reason? The Incomplete Normalisation of the Tyrannicides 114 7. The Age of Honours: New Meanings for the Monument in the Fourth Century 116 8. Model ‘Notables’: The Tyrannicides in the Hellenistic period 138 9. Forever Young: The Uses of the Statuary Group in the Roman Period 162 Epilogue—Born Again: The Statuary Group’s Belated Rebirth in the West 186 Conclusion 198 Appendix: Iconographic Allusions to the Tyrannicides Group 208 Notes 218 Bibliography 2

Author

Vincent Azoulay;Janet Lloyd;

Language

EN