# Kritios

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Ancient Athenian sculptor (5th cent. BCE)

Roman copy of Kritios' *Tyrannicides* (Archaeological Museum, Naples).

**Kritios** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Κριτίος, [/krɪˈtiːəs/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English)) was an [Athenian](/source/Athenian) sculptor, probably a pupil of [Antenor](/source/Antenor), working in the early 5th century BCE, whose manner is on the cusp of the Late Archaic and the [Severe style](/source/Severe_style) of Early Classicism in [Attica](/source/Attica). He was the teacher of [Myron](/source/Myron). With Nesiotes (Νησιώτης,) Kritios made the replacement of the Tyrannicides ("Tyrant-killers") group[1] by Antenor, which had been carried off by the Persians in the first stage of the [Greco-Persian Wars](/source/Greco-Persian_Wars).[2] The new group stood in the [Agora of Athens](/source/Ancient_Agora_of_Athens) and its composition is known from Roman copies.

With Nesiotes Kritios made other statues, of bronze, dedicated on the [Acropolis](/source/Acropolis_of_Athens), of which only their inscribed bases remain to give testament. The head of a marble statue found on the Acropolis so much resembles the copies of one of the Tyrannicides – Harmodius – that it has been called the *[Kritios Boy](/source/Kritios_Boy)* (now in the [Acropolis Museum](/source/Acropolis_Museum)). Its easy naturalism and relaxed *[contrapposto](/source/Contrapposto)* set it apart from the Late Archaic conventional *[kouroi](/source/Kouros)* that preceded it. It was re-discovered too late (1865) to have had an effect on [Neoclassical sculpture](/source/Neoclassical_sculpture), as it would have done if it had been known a century earlier.

## See also

- [Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture)](/source/Harmodius_and_Aristogeiton_(sculpture))

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** The "Tyrant-killers" (Τυραννοκτόνοι), [Harmodius and Aristogeiton](/source/Harmodius_and_Aristogeiton_(sculpture)), the heroic lovers who slew the tyrant [Hipparchus](/source/Hipparchus).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Brunnsåker1971_2-0)** Sture Brunnsåker (1971). [*The Tyrant-Slayers of Kritios and Nesiotes: a critical study of the sources and restorations*](https://books.google.com/books?id=SPEOAQAAMAAJ). Svenska Institutet i Athen. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-91-85086-00-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-91-85086-00-9).

The "Tyrant-killers" (Τυραννοκτόνοι), Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the heroic lovers who slew the tyrant [Hipparchus](/source/Hipparchus_(son_of_Peisistratos))

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Kritios](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kritios).

- [Acropolis sculptures: The Kritios Boy](http://www.ancient-greece.org/art/acropolis-sculptures.html)

- [R. Ross Holloway, *The Hand of Daedalus*, ch II "The Fateful Year 480 in the History of Greek Art"](https://web.archive.org/web/20061208001445/http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/html/epublications/papers/daedalus/chapter2.html) Kritios in context.

- [The Calf-Bearer and the Kritian Boy at the dig site on the Acropolis, 1865](http://daphne.palomar.edu/mhudelson/WorksofArt/05Greek/4169.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20060908034715/http://daphne.palomar.edu/mhudelson/WorksofArt/05Greek/4169.html) 2006-09-08 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine).

- [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm), ed. (1911). ["Critius and Nesiotes"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Critius_and_Nesiotes). *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 470.

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