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
13. Diagoras, son of Damagetos, of Rhodes, the most famous of Greek
boxers.[2481] In addition to his statue at Olympia by Kallikles, son of
Theokosmos of Megara, mentioned by Pausanias (VI, 7.1-2) as standing
among the group of statues of his sons and grandsons, we learn from
the scholiast on Pindar, _Ol._ VII, Argum., who quotes Gorgon as his
authority,[2482] that this ode, which celebrated the Olympic victory of
Diagoras, was attached in golden letters to the walls of the temple of
Athena at Lindos.
14. Agias, of Pharsalos.[2483] We have already, in Ch. VI, discussed
the group of marble statues set up at Delphi by Daochos of Pharsalos
in honor of his ancestors who had won in various athletic contests,
which was discovered by the French excavators there in 1894. We there
mentioned that Preuner found the same metrical inscription which
appeared on the base of the statue of Agias, the best preserved of
the group (Pl. 28 and Fig. 68), in the journal of Stackelberg,[2484]
who had copied it in the early part of the nineteenth century from
a base in Pharsalos which has since disappeared. This Thessalian
inscription contained the additional words that Lysippos of Sikyon was
the sculptor. In both inscriptions the victories of Agias at Olympia
and elsewhere are noted. Thus we know of two statues of Agias, one at
Delphi, the other at Pharsalos, both presumably by Lysippos. Preuner
also thinks that a third statue may have stood in Olympia.
15. Cheimon, of Argos.[2485] In mentioning the statue of Cheimon at
Olympia by the sculptor Naukydes of Argos, Pausanias, in the same
passage (VI, 9.3), records another which once stood in Argos, but was
later removed to the temple of Peace in Rome.[2486]
16. Leon, son of Antikleidas (or Antalkidas), of Sparta.[2487] A
fragment of Polemon[2488] mentions a statue of this victor. It may have
stood in Olympia, as Foerster without good grounds assumes, or it may
have stood elsewhere.
17. Eubotas (Eubatas or Eubatos), of Kyrene.[2489] Besides his statue
at Olympia recorded by Pausanias (VI, 8.3), we learn of another set up
at Kyrene by the victor’s wife for his devotion.[2490]
18. Promachos, son of Dryon, of Pellene in Achaia.[2491] Pausanias not
only mentions a bronze statue of this victor at Olympia (VI, 8.5-6),
but also records one of stone dedicated likewise by his townsmen in the
Old Gymnasion of Pellene (VII, 27.5).
Of the fifth or fourth centuries B. C.:
19. An unknown victor, of Argos or (?) Tegea.[2492] Aristotle mentions
an inscription from a statue of an Olympic victor in two passages of
his _Rhetoric_.[2493] This epigram was repeated by Aristophanes of
Byzantion,[2494] who wrongly ascribed it to Simonides.[2495] Where this
statue stood can not be determined.
Of the fourth century B. C.:
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