Ingres   Pisistratus head and left hand of Alcibiades, 1824 1834

As with all figures of ancient Greece who did not appear on coins, we no reliable idea what the tyrant Peisistratos actually looked like. Traditionally he is associated with the standardization of the Homeric texts. This imaginative portrait by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres done between 1824 and 1834 is at least by an artist of renown.

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