The only surviving example of a choregic monument, Lysikrates Monument was built in 334 BC to commemorate the eponymous Lysikrates' sponsorship of a chorus that won in the dramatic contests of the Dionysia. It's the earliest-known monument using Corinthian capitals externally. The reliefs depict the battle between Dionysos and the Tyrrhenian pirates, whom the god had transformed into dolphins.
It stands in what was once part of the Street of Tripods (Modern Tripodon), where winners of ancient dramatic and choral contests dedicated their tripod trophies to Dionysos. In the 18th century the monument was incorporated into the library of a French Capuchin convent, at which Lord Byron stayed in 1810–11 and wrote Childe Harold . The convent was destroyed by fire in 1890.
