Head of a statue of Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC), by Leochares. Classical Period, after 338 BC. Found in 1886 near the Erechtheion on the Acropolis. Alexander the Great is portrayed at a young age, as he would have been during his sole visit to Athens, after the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC

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