Free-Standing Statues Set Up in the Sanctuary and Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus At Athens

In this monograph all the known free-standing sculptures are collected, which may have been set up in the Sanctuary and Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus and in the surrounding areas from the late Archaic to the early Hellenistic period. The research on how statues in several choregic monuments looked like is also investigated in this study. The primary destinations of the original statues of renowned sculptural types such as the Resting Satyr, the Capitoline Aphrodite, the Artemis Versailles and the type Woburn Abbey Dionysos are analysed and it is suggested that they were originally set up in Sanctuary and Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus or in the surrounding areas. Furthermore, this study reflects on the contribution of the monuments in the Sanctuary of Dionysos in this central part of Athens at the South Slope of the Akropolis, and finally the study ends with an investigation of the unfolding of the Athenian visual arts throughout the centuries from the Archaic period unwards.