Antenor

This article is about the historical sculptor(s). For the mythological figure, see Antenor (mythology). For other uses, see Antenor (disambiguation).

Antenor (Ancient Greek: Ἀντήνωρ, Antḗnōr; fl. c. 540 – c. 500 BC)^[1] was an Athenian sculptor. He is recorded as the creator of the joint statues of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton funded by the Athenians on the expulsion of Hippias.^[2][3] These statues were carried away to Susa by Xerxes I of Persia during the Greco-Persian Wars.^[4] Archaeologists have also established that a basis signed by "Antenor son of Eumares" belonged to a set of female figures in an archaic style which were displayed in the acropolis.^[3] The sculptor of the Harmodius and Aristogeiton is usually listed as the son of Euphranor.^[4]

See also

• Harmodius and Aristogeiton
• Harmodius and Aristogeiton in sculpture
• Antenor Kore
• Severe style
• Ancient Greek sculpture

Notes

1. EB (1992).
2. Gardner, p. 182.
3. EB (1911).
4. EB (1878).

References

• Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), "Antenor" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 102
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Antenor" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 92
• "Antenor", New Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th ed., Vol. I, Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 1992, p. 441
• Gardner, E.A., Handbook of Greek Sculpture, vol.  I