Cast Gallery catalogue number: C005b

Aristogeiton, one of the two Tyrant-slayers.
For copies of the head see C006a and C006b; for the other Tyrant-slayer see C005a.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.63m.
• 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. 6010.