Critius

Also known as Kritios, Critias

thumb|upright|Roman copy of Kritios' Tyrannicides (Archaeological Museum, Naples).

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Commons category: Kritios
date of birth: 0600-01-01
date of death: 0500-01-01

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thumb|upright|Roman copy of Kritios' Tyrannicides (Archaeological Museum, Naples).

Kritios (, ) was an Athenian sculptor, probably a pupil of Antenor, working in the early 5th century BCE, whose manner is on the cusp of the Late Archaic and the Severe style of Early Classicism in Attica. He was the teacher of Myron. With Nesiotes (Νησιώτης,) Kritios made the replacement of the Tyrannicides ("Tyrant-killers") group by Antenor, which had been carried off by the Persians in the first stage of the Greco-Persian Wars. The new group stood in the Agora of Athens and its composition is known from Roman copies.