Detail of a marble portrait herm of the Athenian orator Demosthenes.

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Roman copy now in the Munich Glyptothek of a lost Greek original of ca. 280BC. The original work, a bronze by the sculptor Polyeuktos, stood in the Athenian Agora and commemorated the great orator's resistance to the rising power of Macedon.

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Size: 3400px × 5100px
Location: Munich Glyptothek, Muenchen, Konigsplatz, Bavaria Germany Deutschland
Photo credit: © Erin Babnik / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ancient, athenian, demosthenes, greece, greek, herm, impediment, luminary, male, man, orator, philosopher, polyeuktos, portrait, sculpture, speech