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Portrait head (Pentelic marble) of the great Athenian orator Demosthenes. Roman copy after a Hellenistic original (280 BCE) by the sculptor Polyeuktos. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Photo credit: George E. Koronaios/Wikimedia Commons.
The head of the Athenian orator Demosthenes (382-322 BCE). Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a lost Greek original by the sculptor Polyeuktos (ca. 280 BCE). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen.
