Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic ArtHyde, Walter Woodburn
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Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art
Hyde, Walter Woodburn
Olympics; Sculpture, Greek; Sports -- Greece
Thus Pausanias ends his second route somewhere short of the Great
Altar, and it appears after all to be only a continuation of the first,
forming with it one unbroken “_Rundgang_,” though in quite a different
sense of the word from that intended by Doerpfeld.
SUMMARY OF RESULTS.
From a study of these two routes, and a comparison of the dates of the
victorious athletes,[2360] we can draw the following conclusions as to
the positions of the victor statues mentioned by Pausanias as standing
in the Altis at Olympia:
1. The twenty-eight oldest statues—exclusive of the five already
mentioned as having been removed from the area of the later temple of
Zeus[2361]—dating from Ol. 58 (= 548 B. C., Pythokritos, 128 b) to Ol.
76 (= 476 B. C., Theognetos, 83), _i. e._, approximately down to the
date of the founding of the temple,[2362] stood in the space between
the eastern front of the temple and the Echo Colonnade, or to the south
of it near the South Altis wall. Only one statue (that of Protolaos,
48) stood as far north as the _Eretrian Bull_. Thus the southeastern
part of the Altis was the oldest part dedicated to victor statues.
2. After this space was mostly filled, the next statues, those dating
from Ol. 77 (= 472 B. C., Kallias, 50) to Ol. 93 (= 408 B. C., Eubotas,
75), _i. e._, from about the time of the foundation of the temple to
near the date of the battle of Aigospotamoi, fifty-one in number,
stood between the Heraion and the _Victory_ of Paionios; only one
stood as far south as the Altis wall, while seven stood around the
_Chariots_, ten around the _Victory_, twenty around the _Bull_, and
the rest further north (including 176, 185 of the second ἔφοδος, which
stood north of the eastern end of the temple). Diagoras and his family
(59-63), boxers and pancratiasts, had their statues near the older
famous boxer Euthymos (56); Alkainetos and his sons (64-66), boxers,
besides many other pugilists, had theirs near the Diagorids; Tellon
(102) had his near that of his compatriot Epikradios (101); later
Achæans had theirs near that of their countryman Oibotas (29), and
Spartans near that of Chionis (111); some, as the three victors from
Heraia (176, 177, 32),[2363] stood far apart only apparently, for the
last one had his statue near the _Bull_, and so not far from the other
two, though these are named in the second ἔφοδος.
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