| Title: | Portrait of Demosthenes |
| Context: | From Athens, Agora |
| Summary: | Demosthenes standing with his hands clasped |
| Object Function: | Honorary |
| Sculptor: | Literary attestation to Polyeuktos |
| Material: | Bronze |
| Sculpture Type: | Free-standing portrait statue |
| Category: | Original/copies |
| Style: | Early Hellenistic |
| Technique: | Hollow cast |
| Original or Copy: | Original (lost) |
| Date: | exact 280 BC |
| Scale: | Slightly over life-size |
| Region: | Attica |
| Period: | Early Hellenistic |
Condition: Lost
Inscription: According to Ps.-Plut. Vit. X orat., Demosth. 874a the portrait of Demosthenes near the Altar of the Twelve Gods in the Agora bore the following elegaic couplet: "If they strength had only been equal to thy purposes, Demosthenes, never would the Greeks have been ruled by a Macedonian Ares" (trans. R.E. Wycherley, Agora 3 [1957] no. 698).
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