1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Antenor (sculptor)

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5726241911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2 — Antenor (sculptor)

ANTENOR, an Athenian sculptor, of the latter part of the 6th century B.C. He was the author of the group of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton, set up by the Athenians on the expulsion of the Peisistratidae, and carried away to Persia by Xerxes. A basis with the signature of Antenor, son of Eumares, has been shown to belong to one of the dedicated female figures of archaic style which have been found on the Acropolis of Athens.

See Greek Art; and E. A. Gardner’s Handbook of Greek Sculpture, i. p. 182.