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
Horse-racing had early been discontinued, but
was revived at the end of the first century B. C., when members of
the imperial family, emulating the earlier triumphs of the princes
of Sicily and Macedonia, became competitors. Thus Tiberius won in
the chariot-race, and a few years later his nephew Germanicus in the
same event. The list of these bases of victor statues of the first
century B. C. and their provenience follows. A fragment of the base
of the victor Agilochos, son of Nikeas of Elis, victor κέλητι πωλικῷ,
was found in the East Byzantine wall.[2402] One fragment of the
_bathron_ of the family group of the Elean Philistos,[2403] victors
in hippic contests, was found southwest of the Pelopion, while four
others were discovered south of the Philippeion; the base of the
statue of Philonikos, a son of Philistos, was also found south of the
Philippeion,[2404] and that of another unnamed son was discovered to
the west of the Prytaneion,[2405] while the place of finding of that
of Charops, the son of Telemachos, has not been recorded.[2406] The
base of the monument of Aristarchos was found east of the Byzantine
church,[2407] that of Damaithidas, son of Menippos of Elis, a victor
συνωρίδι πωλικῇ, west of the Council-house (south building),[2408] and
that of Thrasymachos (or Thrasymedes) in the _Nordostgraben_.[2409] A
fragment of the base of the statue of Demokrates of Antioch in Karia
was found in the bed of the river Kladeos,[2410] that of a victor whose
name began with Demo..., northeast of the Prytaneion,[2411] while
that of Thaliarchos, the son of Soterichos of Elis, victor πὺξ παίδων
καὶ ἀνδρῶν, was found east of the Council-house.[2412] Bases from
two statues of Menedemos, son of Menedemos of Elis, victor συνωρίδι
πωλικῇ, were found, one east of the temple of Zeus, the other inside
the Heraion.[2413] Lykomedes, the son of Aristodemos of Elis, victor
συνωρίδι πωλικῇ, also had two statues; the base of one was found in
front of the West Byzantine wall on the south side of the temple of
Zeus, that of the other in the _Westgraben_.[2414] The front part of
the base of the statue of Archiadas, the son of Timolas of Elis, who
won κέλητι πωλικῷ, was discovered southwest of the temple of Zeus, on
the Terrace wall.[2415] That of an unknown victor in the δίαυλος, the
son of ...krates of Miletos, was found near the _Osthalle_,[2416]
while that inscribed with the name of Tiberius Claudius Nero of Rome,
who won a victory τεθρίππῳ just before the end of the century, was
found south of the _Eretrian Bull_.[2417]
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