The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic KoraiSome of the loveliest works of Archaic art were the Athenian korai sculptures of beautiful young women presenting offerings to the goddess Athena that stood on the Acropolis. Sculpted in the sixth and early fifth centuries B. C., they served as votives until Persians sacked the citadel in 480 79 B. C. Subsequently, they were buried as a group and forgotten for nearly twenty four centuries, until archaeologists excavated them in the 1880s. Today, they