CONTENTS.

Chapter I.
PAGE
Early Greek Games and Prizes[1]-42
Sports in Crete[1]
Athletics in Homer[7]
Origin of Greek Games in the Cult of the Dead[9]
Early History of the Four National Games[14]
Early Prizes for Athletes[18]
Dedication of Athlete Prizes[21]
Dedication of Statues at Olympia and Elsewhere[24]
Honors Paid to Victors by their Native Cities[32]
Votive Character of Victor Dedications[37]
Miscellaneous Memorials to Victors[40]
Honorary Statues[41]
Chapter II.
General Characteristics of Victor Statues at Olympia[43]-98
Size of Victor Statues[45]
Nudity of Victor Statues[47]
The Athletic Hair-fashion[50]
Iconic and Aniconic Statues[54]
Portrait Statues[55]
Aniconic Statues[58]
Aesthetic Judgments of Classical Writers[58]
Greek Originals of Victor Statues[62]
Canons of Proportion[65]

Assimilation of Olympic Victor Statues to Types of Gods and Heroes

[71]
Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Hermes[75]
Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Apollo[88]
Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Herakles[93]
Athletes Represented as the Dioskouroi[96]
Chapter III.
Victor Statues Represented at Rest[99]-172
The Apollo Type[100]
The Affiliated Schools of Argos and Sikyon[109]
The School of Argos[109]
The School of Sikyon[118]
Aeginetan Sculptors[122]
Attic Sculptors[126]
General Motives of Statues at Rest[130]
Adoration and Prayer[130]
Anointing[133]
Oil-scraping[135]
Libation-pouring[138]
Resting after the Contest[144]
Attributes of Victor Statues[147]
Primary Attributes of Victor Statues[148]
The Victor Fillet[148]
Fillet-binders[150]
The Crown of Wild Olive[155]
The Palm-branch[160]
Secondary Attributes of Victor Statues[161]
Hoplitodromoi[161]
Pentathletes[164]
Boxers[165]
Wrestlers[165]
Caps for Boxers, Pancratiasts, and Wrestlers[165]
The Swollen Ear[167]
Chapter IV.
Victor Statues Represented in Motion[173]-256
The Tyrannicides[173]
Antiquity of Motion Statues in Greece[176]
Pythagoras and Myron[178]
Motion Statues representing Victors in Various Contests[188]
Runners: Stadiodromoi, Diaulodromoi, Dolichodromoi[190]
The Statue of the Runner Ladas[196]
Statues of Boy Runners[200]
Hoplitodromoi[203]
Pentathletes[210]
Jumpers[214]
Diskoboloi[218]
Akontistai[222]
Wrestlers[228]
Boxers[234]
Pancratiasts[246]
Chapter V.
Monuments of Hippodrome and Musical Victors[257]-285
Programme of Hippodrome Events[259]
Representations of the Chariot-race[262]
Chariot-groups at Olympia[264]
Remains of Chariot-groups[269]
The Apobates Chariot-race[272]
Statues of Charioteers[274]
Dedications of Victors in the Horse-race at Olympia and Elsewhere[278]
Monuments Illustrating the Horse-race[280]
The Apobates Horse-race[282]
Dedications of Musical Victors at Olympia and Elsewhere[283]
Chapter VI.
Two Marble Heads from Victor Statues[286]-320
The Group of Daochos at Delphi, and Lysippos[286]
The Apoxyomenos of the Vatican, and Lysippos[288]
The Agios and the Apoxyomenos compared, and the Style of Lysippos[289]
The Head from Olympia[293]
The Olympia Head and that of the Agias[294]
Identification of the Olympia Head[298]
The Dates of Philandridas and Lysippos[300]
Lysippos as a Worker in Marble, and Statue “Doubles”[302]
The Head of a Statue of a Boy from Sparta, and the Art of Skopas[303]
Comparison of the Tegea Heads and the Head from Sparta[308]
The Styles of Skopas and Lysippos Compared[311]
The Sparta Head Compared with that of the Philandridas[316]
The Sparta Head an Eclectic Work and an Example of Assimilation[318]
Chapter VII.

The Materials of Olympic Victor Monuments, and the Oldest-dated VictorStatue

[321]-338
The Case for Bronze[321]
The Case for Stone[323]
The Statue of Arrhachion at Phigalia[326]
Egyptian Influence on Early Greek Sculpture[328]
Early Victor Statues and the “Apollo” Type[334]
Chapter VIII.

Positions of Victor Statues in the Altis; Olympic Victor Monuments ErectedOutside Olympia; Statistics of Olympic Victor Statuaries

[339]-375
Statues Mentioned by Pausanias[339]
The First Ephodos of Pausanias[341]
The Second Ephodos of Pausanias[348]
Summary of Results[352]
Statues not Mentioned by Pausanias, but known from Recovered Bases[353]
Olympic Victor Monuments Erected Outside Olympia[361]
Summary of Results[374]
Statistics of Olympic Victor Statuaries[375]