The bigger they are, the harder they fall? In sixth century B.C.E. Athens, aristocratic families attested to their power by erecting elaborate funerary monuments. Among the tallest is this 13-foot marble stele of a young athlete and a little girl (ca. 530 B.C.E.). When the aristocratic families lost power to the tyrant Peisistratos in the second half of the century, many of their tombs were destroyed, possibly including the one that this stele marked.