Name:	Krition Boy
Picture:
Description:	Athens, Akropolis. Athens Akropolis Museum. H. 0.86m. Naked youth, with his head turned slightly to the right and with a tilt to the hips, his weight on the left leg, the right leg slightly bent at the knee. The pose is casual, relaxed, markedly different from the kouroi of the previous century, heralding a change in perspective for the male nude.
Date:	c. 480 B.C.
Discussion:	The Krition Boy was so named because of the startling resemblance between the youth's face and that of the Tyrannicide Harmodious; this group was executed by Kritios and Nesiotes, and so this youth became known as the Krition Boy. See Robertson 1981: fig. 71, p. 48; Stewart 1990: 133-5; 42-3, 219-20 (ills.).