Kairós is the god of the right moment to be grasped. Here, in the churning river of time (Chrónos), one detects the incompletely preserved copy of a bronze statue of Kairós, sculpted around 350 B.C. by Lysippos and now considered lost. The copy was created in the second or first century B.C.. It was discovered in 1928 in an attic in Trogir (Croatia), where it is now kept in the Saint Nicholas Monastery. The ancient Greeks perceived Kairós as a young man sneaking up on tiptoe. He has wings both on his back and on his feet and holds a set of scales in front of his chest. A tuft of hair falls across his forehead. Until today, the German idiom for “seizing the opportunity” uses the image of Kairós’s hair (“die Gelegenheit beim Schopf packen” translates literally as “seizing the opportunity by its tuft”).
