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Koroi are known as Kleovis and Biton.
The two boys who heroically pulled their mother on her chariot to the sanctuary
where she was to worship. They pulled the chariot for a distance of about 8km.
They died the same night peacefully in their sleep according to Herodotus.

Over life size (6.15m) each.
Early 6th c. B.C. (circa 580 B.C.)
Made by Polymedes.

 

Kleobis and Biton