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
7. Philippos, son of Boutakides, of Kroton.[2461] The people of Egesta
in Sicily erected a shrine over his grave in their town, and paid him
divine honors on account of his beauty, in which he surpassed all his
contemporaries.[2462]
Of the fifth century B. C.:
8. Astylos, or Astyalos, of Kroton.[2463] Besides mentioning his statue
by Pythagoras of Rhegion at Olympia, Pausanias in the same passage (VI,
13.1) mentions another in the temple of Lakinian Hera near Kroton,
which his fellow-townsmen pulled down in anger, because he had called
himself a Syracusan in order to please the Sicilian tyrant Hiero.[2464]
Collignon believes that the statue at Kroton was also a copy of the
work of Pythagoras at Olympia.[2465]
9. Euthymos, son of Astykles, of Lokroi Epizephyrioi in South
Italy.[2466] In addition to his statue at Olympia by Pythagoras,
mentioned by Pausanias (VI, 6.4-6),[2467] we know of another statue by
Pythagoras set up in Lokroi in honor of this victor.[2468] According to
Kallimachos, both statues were struck by lightning at the same time.
Other writers tell wondrous tales of this boxer.[2469]
10. Theagenes, son of Timosthenes, of Thasos, one of the most famous
Olympic victors.[2470] Besides his statue at Olympia by Glaukias of
Aegina (VI, 11.2 and 9), Pausanias says that he knows of many other
places in Greece and elsewhere where images of this victor were set up
(VI, 11.9), and records one at Thasos to which the Thasians sacrificed
as to a god (VI, 11.6). The story which he tells about this Thasian
statue being scourged and falling on the enemy of Theagenes is also
recounted at greater length by Dio Chrysostom[2471] and is mentioned
by Eusebios.[2472] Lucian says that the statue cured fevers, just as
did that of Polydamas at Olympia.[2473] Studniczka has argued that the
statues at Thasos and elsewhere were set up to honor the hero and not
the victor.[2474]
11. Ladas, of Sparta.[2475] Two fourth-century epigrams celebrate the
fleetness of Ladas, and the second names Myron as the statuary of a
bronze statue of him.[2476] Pausanias mentions a statue of the same
victor in the temple of Apollo Lykios in Argos (II, 19.7). Whether the
latter statue was identical with the one named in the epigram can not
be finally determined.[2477] Pausanias refers to a stadion of Ladas,
situated between Mantinea and Orchomenos in Arkadia, in which Ladas
practiced running (VIII, 12.5), and also to his grave between Belemina
and Sparta (III, 21.1).
12. Kallias, son of Didymias of Athens.[2478] Apart from his statue at
Olympia made by the Athenian painter and sculptor Mikon, mentioned by
Pausanias (VI, 6.1),[2479] there was a dedication to him at Athens, as
we learn from the preserved inscription, which enumerates his thirteen
victories at Olympia and elsewhere.[2480]
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