Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art by Walter Woodburn Hyde

23. Head of so-called _Oil-pourer_. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

After Photograph 134

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
Chapter V relates chiefly to the monuments of hippodrome victors, those Ch.2
Chapter VI gives a stylistic analysis of what are conceived to be Ch.3
CHAPTER I. Ch.4
CHAPTER II. Ch.5
CHAPTER III. Ch.6
CHAPTER IV. Ch.7
CHAPTER V. Ch.8
CHAPTER VI. Ch.9
CHAPTER VII. Ch.10
CHAPTER VIII. Ch.11
1. Bull-grappling Scene. Wall-painting, from Knossos. Museum Ch.12
2. Marble Statue of a Girl Runner. Vatican Museum, Rome. After Ch.13
3. Bronze Head of an Olympic Victor. Glyptothek, Munich. After Ch.14
4. Statue of the _Doryphoros_, from Pompeii, after Polykleitos. Ch.15
5. Statue of _Hermes_, from Andros. National Museum, Athens. Ch.16
6. Statue of the _Standing Diskobolos_, after Naukydes (?). Ch.17
9. Statue of an Athlete, by Stephanos. Villa Albani, Rome. Ch.18
10. Bronze statue of the _Praying Boy_. Museum of Berlin. After Ch.19
11. Statue of so-called _Oil-pourer_. Glyptothek, Munich. After Ch.20
12. Statue of an _Apoxyomenos_. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. After Ch.21
13. Statue of an Athlete, after Polykleitos. Farnsworth Museum, Ch.22
14. Bronze Statue known as the _Idolino_. Museo Archeologico, Ch.23
15. Marble Head of an Athlete, after Kresilas (?). Metropolitan Ch.24
16. Bronze Statue of the _Seated Boxer_. Museo delle Terme, Ch.25
17. Statue known as the _Farnese Diadoumenos_. British Museum, Ch.26
18. Statue of the _Diadoumenos_, from Delos. After Polykleitos. Ch.27
19. Statue known as the _Westmacott Athlete_. British Museum, Ch.28
20. Head of an Athlete, School of Praxiteles. Metropolitan Museum, Ch.29
21. Statue of _Diomedes with the Palladion_. Glyptothek, Munich. Ch.30
22. Statue of the _Diskobolos_, from Castel Porziano, after Ch.31
23. Statue of the _Diskobolos_, after Myron. A bronzed Cast from Ch.32
24. Statue of a Kneeling Youth, from Subiaco. Museo delle Terme, Ch.33
25. Marble Group of Pancratiasts. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Ch.34
26. Racing Chariot and Horses. From an archaic b.-f. Hydria. Ch.35
27. Statue of a Charioteer (?). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Ch.36
28. Statue of the Pancratiast Agias, from Delphi. Museum Ch.37
29. Statue of the _Apoxyomenos_. After Lysippos or his School. Ch.38
30. Statue of _Herakles_. Lansdowne House, London. After Gardner, Ch.39
1. So-called _Boxer Vase_, from Hagia Triada. From a Cast Ch.40
2. Bronze Statuette of a Victor, from Olympia. Museum of Olympia. Ch.41
3. Bronze Head of an Olympic Victor, from Beneventum. Louvre, Ch.42
4. Bronze Head of an Olympic Victor, from Herculaneum. Museum Ch.43
5. Bronze Portrait-statue of a Hellenistic Prince. Museo delle Ch.44
6. Bronze Statuette of _Hermes-Diskobolos_, found in the Sea Ch.45
7. Bronze Statue of a Youth, found in the Sea off Antikythera. Ch.46
8. Statue of the so-called _Jason_ (_Sandal-binder_). Louvre, Ch.47
9. Statue of so-called _Apollo of Thera_. National Museum, Ch.48
10. Statue of so-called _Apollo of Orchomenos_. National Museum, Ch.49
11. Statue of so-called _Apollo_, from Mount Ptoion, Bœotia. Ch.50
12. Statue of so-called _Apollo of Melos_. National Museum, Ch.51
13. Statues of so-called _Apollos_, from Mount Ptoion. National Ch.52
14. Statue known as the _Strangford Apollo_. British Museum, Ch.53
15. Bronze Statuette of a Palæstra Victor, from the Akropolis. Ch.54
16. Bronze Statuette, from Ligourió. Museum of Berlin. After Ch.55
17. Statue of an Ephebe, from the Akropolis. Akropolis Museum, Ch.56
18. Head of an Ephebe, from the Akropolis. Akropolis Museum, Ch.57
19. Bronze Statuette of Apollo, found in the Sea off Piombino. Ch.58
20. Figure, from the East Pediment of the Temple on Aegina. Ch.59
21. Two Figures, from the West Pediment of the Temple on Aegina. Ch.60
22. Archaic Marble Head of a Youth. Jacobsen Collection, Ch.61
23. Head of so-called _Oil-pourer_. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Ch.62
24. Bronze Statuette of an Athlete. Louvre, Paris. After Ch.63
25. Bronze Head of an Athlete, from Herculaneum. Museum of Naples. Ch.64
26. Marble Statue of an Athlete (?). National Museum, Athens. Ch.65
27. Head from Statue of the _Seated Boxer_ (Pl. 16). Museo delle Ch.66
28. Statue of the _Diadoumenos_, from Vaison, after Polykleitos. Ch.67
29. Head of the _Diadoumenos_, after Polykleitos. Albertinum, Ch.68
30. Marble Heads of two Hoplitodromoi, from Olympia. Museum of Ch.69
31. Head of Herakles, from Genzano. British Museum, London. After Ch.70
33. Head of an Athlete, from Perinthos. Albertinum, Dresden. Ch.71
34. Statue of the _Diskobolos_, after Myron. Vatican Museum, Ch.72
35. Statue of the _Diskobolos_, after Myron. British Museum, Ch.73
36. A and B. Athletic Scenes from a Bacchic Amphora in Rome. Ch.74
37. Athletic Scenes from a Sixth-century B. C. Panathenaic Ch.75
38. Statue of a Runner. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. After Ch.76
39. Statue of a Runner. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. After Ch.77
40. Statue of the so-called _Thorn-puller_ (the _Spinario_). Ch.78
41. Hoplitodromes. Scenes from a r.-f. Kylix. Museum of Berlin. Ch.79
42. Bronze Statuette of a Hoplitodrome (?). University Museum, Ch.80
43. Statue of the so-called _Borghese Warrior_. Louvre, Paris. Ch.81
44. Pentathletes. Scene from a Panathenaic Amphora in the Ch.82
45. Statue of a Boy Victor (the _Dresden Boy_). Albertinum, Ch.83
46. Bronze Statuette of a _Diskobolos_. Metropolitan Museum, Ch.84
47. Bust of the _Doryphoros_, after Polykleitos, by Apollonios. Ch.85
48. Statue of the _Doryphoros_, after Polykleitos. Vatican Ch.86
49. Wrestling Scenes. From Obverse of an Amphora, by Andokides. Ch.87
50. Wrestling and Boxing Scenes. From a r.-f. Kylix. University Ch.88
51. Bronze Statues of Wrestlers. Museum of Naples. After B. B., Ch.89
52. Bronze Arm of Statue of a Boxer, found in the Sea off Ch.90
53. Forearm with Glove. From the Statue of the _Seated Boxer_ Ch.91
54. Boxing Scenes. From a r.-f. Kylix by Douris. British Museum, Ch.92
55. Boxing and Pankration Scenes. From a r.-f. Kylix. British Ch.93
56. Boxing Scene. From a b.-f. Panathenaic Panel-amphora. Ch.94
57. Statue of a Boxer, from Sorrento. By Koblanos of Aphrodisias. Ch.95
58. Statue known as _Pollux_. Louvre, Paris. After Photograph Ch.96
59. Pankration Scene. From a Panathenaic Amphora by Kittos. Ch.97
60. Bronze Statuette of a Pancratiast (?), from Autun, France. Ch.98
61. Bronze Head of a Boxer(?), from Olympia. A (Profile); Ch.99
62. Bronze Foot of a Victor Statue, from Olympia. Museum Ch.100
63. Charioteer Mounting a Chariot. Bas-relief from the Akropolis. Ch.101
64. _Apobates_ and Chariot. Relief from the North Frieze of Ch.102
65. Charioteer. Relief from the small Frieze of the Mausoleion, Ch.103
66. Bronze Statue of the Delphi _Charioteer_. Museum of Delphi. Ch.104
67. Horse-racer. From a Sixth-century B. C. b.-f. Panathenaic Ch.105
68. Head from the Statue of Agias (Pl. 28). Museum of Delphi. Ch.106
69. Marble Head, from Olympia. Three-quarters Front View Ch.107
70. Profile Drawings of the Heads of the _Agias_ and the Ch.108
71. Head of the Statue of Herakles (Pl. 30). Lansdowne House, Ch.109
72. Marble Head of a Boy, found near the Akropolis, Sparta. In Ch.110
73. So-called Head of Herakles from Tegea, by Skopas. National Ch.111
74. Attic Grave-relief, found in the Bed of the Ilissos, Athens. Ch.112
75. Statue of the so-called _Meleager_. Vatican Museum, Rome. Ch.113
76. Head of the so-called _Meleager_. Villa Medici, Rome. After Ch.114
77. Torso of the so-called _Meleager_. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Ch.115
78. Small Marble Torso of a Boy Victor, from Olympia. Museum Ch.116
79. Stone Statue of the Olympic Victor, Arrhachion, from Ch.117
80. Statues of Ra-nefer and Tepemankh, from Sakkarah. Museum Ch.118
1868. Revised edition, entitled Die Gipsabguesse antiker Bildwerke, Ch.119
CHAPTER I. Ch.120
Chapter VIII. Ch.121
CHAPTER II. Ch.122
CHAPTER III. Ch.123
CHAPTER IV. Ch.124
Chapter II, in connection with the subject of assimilation. Ch.125
introduction of this race at Olympia. However, the absence of the Ch.126
1583. The right arm of the uppermost athlete seems to have been wrongly Ch.127
CHAPTER V. Ch.128
episode there described.[1816] But the first trace of such a contest Ch.129
CHAPTER VI. Ch.130
CHAPTER VII. Ch.131
CHAPTER VIII. Ch.132
6. 1-7.1) stood in this neighborhood. Now the statues of the family of Ch.133
Book V, Pausanias says he is proceeding north from the Council-house Ch.134
1. The twenty-eight oldest statues—exclusive of the five already Ch.135
2. After this space was mostly filled, the next statues, those dating Ch.136
3. From near the date of the battle of Aigospotamoi, down to about the Ch.137
4. After Alexander’s time, in consequence of the recent building of Ch.138
1. Chionis, of Sparta.[2443] Besides his statue by Myron and the tablet Ch.139
2. Kylon, of Athens.[2444] Pausanias records that a bronze statue of Ch.140
3. Hipposthenes, of Sparta.[2451] Pausanias records that a temple was Ch.141
4. Hetoimokles, son of Hipposthenes of Sparta.[2453] Pausanias mentions Ch.142
5. Arrhachion, of Phigalia.[2454] Pausanias records the stone statue Ch.143
6. Kimon, the son of Stesagoras, of Athens.[2455] Aelian mentions αἱ Ch.144
7. Philippos, son of Boutakides, of Kroton.[2461] The people of Egesta Ch.145
8. Astylos, or Astyalos, of Kroton.[2463] Besides mentioning his statue Ch.146
9. Euthymos, son of Astykles, of Lokroi Epizephyrioi in South Ch.147
10. Theagenes, son of Timosthenes, of Thasos, one of the most famous Ch.148
11. Ladas, of Sparta.[2475] Two fourth-century epigrams celebrate the Ch.149
12. Kallias, son of Didymias of Athens.[2478] Apart from his statue at Ch.150
13. Diagoras, son of Damagetos, of Rhodes, the most famous of Greek Ch.151
14. Agias, of Pharsalos.[2483] We have already, in Ch. VI, discussed Ch.152
15. Cheimon, of Argos.[2485] In mentioning the statue of Cheimon at Ch.153
16. Leon, son of Antikleidas (or Antalkidas), of Sparta.[2487] A Ch.154
17. Eubotas (Eubatas or Eubatos), of Kyrene.[2489] Besides his statue Ch.155
18. Promachos, son of Dryon, of Pellene in Achaia.[2491] Pausanias not Ch.156
19. An unknown victor, of Argos or (?) Tegea.[2492] Aristotle mentions Ch.157
20. Kyniska, daughter of Archidamos I, of Sparta.[2496] Pausanias, Ch.158
21. Euryleonis, a victress of Sparta.[2497] Pausanias says that she Ch.159
22. Archias, son of Eukles, of Hybla.[2499] An epigram in the _Greek Ch.160
23. [Phil]okrates, son of Antiphon, of Athens (deme of Krioa).[2501] Ch.161
24. An unknown victor. An inscribed base, found near the Portico of Ch.162
25. Phorystas, son of Thriax (or Triax), of (?) Tanagra.[2504] Ch.163
26. Aristophon, son of Lysinos, of Athens.[2507] Besides his statue Ch.164
27. Attalos, father of King Attalos I,[2509] of Pergamon.[2510] The Ch.165
28. Xenodamos, of Antikyra in Phokis.[2512] Pausanias mentions a bronze Ch.166
29. Titos Phlabios Metrobios, son of Demetrios, of Iasos, Karia.[2523] Ch.167
30. Sarapion, of Alexandria, Egypt.[2525] Pausanias mentions two Ch.168
31. Markos Aurelios Demetrios, of Alexandria, Egypt.[2527] His son, Ch.169
32. Unknown victor, from Magnesia ad Sipylum, in Lydia.[2529] His Ch.170
33. Kranaos or Granianos, of Sikyon.[2531] Pausanias mentions a bronze Ch.171
34. Titos Ailios Aurelios Apollonios, of Tarsos.[2532] A statue of Ch.172
35. Mnasiboulos, of Elateia in Phokis.[2534] His fellow citizens Ch.173
36. Aurelios Toalios, of (?) Oinoanda, Lykia.[2535] The inscribed base Ch.174
37. Aurelios Metrodoros, of Kyzikos.[2537] The inscribed base of his Ch.175
38. Valerios Eklektos, of Sinope.[2539] Besides his monument at Ch.176
39. Klaudios Rhouphos, also called Apollonios the Pisan, son of Ch.177
40. Philoumenos, of Philadelphia, in Lydia.[2544] The closing verse Ch.178
41. Ainetos, of (?) Amyklai.[2546] Pausanias mentions the portrait Ch.179
42. Nikokles, of Akriai in Lakonia.[2547] Pausanias mentions a monument Ch.180
43. Aigistratos, son of Polykreon, of Lindos in Rhodes.[2548] A statue Ch.181
44. An unknown victor, of (?) Delphi.[2550] The inscribed base of his Ch.182
1. Epicharinos. Pausanias mentions the statue Ἐπιχαρίνου ὁπλιτοδρομεῖν Ch.183
2. Hermolykos, son of Euthoinos or Euthynos. Pausanias mentions the Ch.184
3. Isokrates, son of Theodoros, of Athens. The pseudo-Plutarch mentions Ch.185
192. Rodenwaldt interprets them as female: _l. c._ Ch.186
26. For the scholiast, see Boeckh, p. 158; and _F. H. G._, II, p. 183 Ch.187
47. P., VI, 20.9, says that the restriction did not include maidens. Ch.188
26. 1; the poet Martianus Capella, of the middle of the fifth century Ch.189
1895. This work is based on the older investigations of C. Schmidt, Ch.190
567. A corresponding replica from Melos is described by F. W., 1219; Ch.191
80. The statue is 1.83 meters high (Bulle). Head alone in Overbeck, Ch.192
66. Graef had already conjectured the type to be that of a Polykleitan Ch.193
73. Froehner reads the name “Exotra,” that of a woman victor. Ch.194
12. It is in the National Museum at Athens, where most of the “Apollos” Ch.195
210. Furtwaengler, _Mp._, p. 196, _Mw._, p. 380, believes it impossible Ch.196
62. The statue is 1.44 meters high (Bulle). For the inscription on the Ch.197
20. Bulle, however, says that the Munich statue may be that of a boxer Ch.198
3. It is 0.21 meter high. For the same style and conception, _cf._ a Ch.199
488. It is 1.48 meters high (Bulle). Ch.200
73. It was formerly in the van Branteghem collection. Ch.201
45. The word ὠτοκάταξις seems to have meant a boxer whose ears were Ch.202
340. Wolters tried to show that it was Praxitelian. But the similarity Ch.203
2212. It is 1.48 meters high from lower edge of base to the right hand Ch.204
7. It is 1 meter high (Bulle). Ch.205
248. Krison is mentioned by Plato, _Protag._, 335 E, and _de Leg._, Ch.206