Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art by Walter Woodburn Hyde

Diagoras, the Rhodian athlete, stood together (59-63), as Pausanias says (VI, 7.1-2); one of them, that of Eukles (52), seems to have been moved from its original position later, as we learn from a scholiast on Pindar’s seventh Olympian ode,[2316] who, on the authority of the lost works of Aristotle and Apollas on the Olympic victors,[2317] enumerates these statues in an order different from that adopted by Pausanias, showing that a change in their positions must have taken place some time between the date of Aristotle and that of the Periegete.[2318] The statues of Alkainetos and his son Hellanikos (64-65) must also have stood together. Inasmuch as the victors from Euthymos to Lykinos (56-68) are, with one exception, all pugilists or pancratiasts and of the fifth century B. C., they must have been grouped together, with the family groups of Diagoras and Alkainetos in the centre.[2319] We may also add the statues of Dromeus and Pythokles[2320] (69-70) of nearly the same date, and we can also extend the group in the other direction; for the same scholiast says that the statue of Diagoras stood near that of the Spartan Lysandros (35 a).[2321] Pausanias (VI, 3.14 and 4.1) says that the statue of Lysandros stood between those of Pyrilampes and Athenaios (35-36). Thus we can conclude that the 36 statues (35-70, VI, 3.13-7.10) stood in the zone of the _Eretrian Bull_, extending perhaps across the Altis to the vicinity of the Echo Colonnade along its eastern boundary. It would follow, then, that the intervening statues from Oibotas to Xenophon (29-34, P., VI, 3.8-3.13) stood somewhere between the Heraion and the _Eretrian Bull_. It is idle to discuss the route between these two monuments more definitely.[2322] Our next fixed point is the _Victory_ of Paionios, whose foundation is still standing in its original position, 37 meters due east of the southeast corner of the temple of Zeus.[2323] For, of the next few statues mentioned, the base of that of Sosikrates (71) was found “somewhere” east of the temple, that of Kritodamos (80) before the “Southeast Building,” and that of Xenokles (85), 4 meters to the northeast of the _Victory_ base, presumably near its original position.[2324] Pausanias groups the three Arkadian athletes, Euthymenes-Kritodamos (78-80, P., VI, 8.5); then, after naming four statues of victors from other states, he mentions two more Arkadians together, Xenokles and Alketos (85-86, VI, 9.2); and he continues by saying that the statues of the Argives Aristeus and Cheimon (87-88, VI, 9.3) stood together. One more statue, that of Phillen or Philys[2325] of Elis (89), is named before he comes to the chariot of Gelo. Thus we may conclude that the series of statues denoted by the numbers 71-89 (P., VI, 8.1-9.4) stood to the south of the _Eretrian Bull_ in the parallel zone of the _Victory_. We next come to the series of statues mentioned between the chariots of Gelo and Kleosthenes (90-99). The position of the bases of these chariots is practically certain. In describing the statues of Zeus in