Cast Gallery catalogue number: C005a

Harmodios, one of the two Tyrant-slayers; for the other see C005b, C006a, or C006b.

• Plaster cast: Height: 2.0m.
• Copy of a marble statue from the group known as the Tyrannicides or Tyrant-slayers.
• The group:
  • is a version of the original group made by Kritios and Nesiotes and set up near the Athens Agora in 477/6 BC.
  • was found in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1790.
  • is now in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 6009.