Heracles, Theseus and Apollo anadoumenos ten komen

Three ›Forgotten‹ Statues from the Athenian Agora

Abstract

In describing the Athenian agora, Pausanias mentions, around the hieron of Ares, a series of statues, three of which scholars have never written about: Heracles, Theseus and Apollo anadoumenos tainia ten komen. This paper focuses on these sculptures and proposes their comparison with a well-known Athenian relief, today exhibited in the Barracco Museum in Rome. This comparison has also inspired the identification of two of the three statues: Heracles, recognised in the original of the so-called Dionysus Philadelphia, and Apollo, identified with the Diadumenos of Polykleitos, or a very similar statue.