Epigraphic Landscape Athens

Cf. ELA id: 411.
The rededication of this statue to Antony certainly dates back to a moment following the visit of Antony and Octavia to Athens, when the two received many honours in the city, being also recognised as gods (see Ath.Agora 18 H273Geagan D., «The Athenian Agora XVIII. Inscriptions: The Dedicatory Monuments», Princeton 2009. = ELA id: 344; IG 2[2] 1043Inscriptiones Graecae II et III: Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores (2nd ed., Pars I-III, Berlin 1913-1940; Pars V: Berlin 2008), Ed. J. Kirchner = ELA id: 245), and preceding the crushing defeat suffered by Antony at Actium.

 

Honorific dedication for Antony previously honouring Attalos I or II of Pergamon.

This inscription and colossus directly parallel the other imposing statue rededicated for Antony on the Acropolis (ELA id: 411), perhaps representing a heroic nudity. As well as in the other case, it was blown down by a storm a little before the Battle of Actium or, more likely, thrown down by the Athenians themselves after the news of the victory of Octavian reached the city.
Cf. also Kotsidu 2000 Kno. 32[L]Kotsidu H. (2000), «ΤΙΜΕ ΚΑΙ ΔΟΞΑ. Ehrungen für hellenistische Herrscher im griechischen Mutterland und in Kleinasien unter besonderer Breücksichtigung der archäologischen Denkmäler», Berlin 2000.

Cf. Di Cesare in Krumeich - Witschel 2010 237-238Krumeich R., Witschel Ch. (hrsg.),«Die Akropolis von Athen im Hellenismus und in der römischer Kaiserzeit», Wiesbaden 2010.