Monument of Kallimachos

monument · 1900 AD – 2099 AD

A column topped by a winged female figure on the Acropolis of Athens, dedicated in 490 BC by the polemarch Kallimachos to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Marathon. It was destroyed in the Persian Sack of 480 BC.

Coordinates

37.97184, 23.72697

Also known as

Nike of Kallimachos (en), Nike of Kallimachos (en)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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