Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art

by Walter Woodburn Hyde

[1193] VIII, 48.2; cf. Vitruv., de Arch., IX, 1 (p. 212).

[1194] Homer mentions the palm: e. g., Od., VI, 163; the various kinds of palm are given by Theophr., Hist. Plant., II, 6.6 and 8.4. Its fronds (σπάθαι, cf. Hdt., VII, 69) were formed into victory crowns: Plut., Quaest. conviv., VIII, 4, p. 723.

[1195] H. N., XXXV, 75.

[1196] Arch. Stud. H. Brunn dargehracht, 1893, pp. 62 f.

[1197] Mp., p. 256 and n. 1; Mw., p. 462 and n. 2.

[1198] Cf. Waldstein, J. H. S., I, 1880, p. 187, n. 1.

[1199] B. C. H., V, 1881, PI. III. See supra, p. 155.

[1200] So Waldstein, l. c., p. 186.

[1201] E. g., on a Panathenaic vase: Mon. d. I., X, 1874–78, Pl. 48, e. g.

[1202] Mentioned by Helbig, Guide, 977; discussed by Arndt in La Glyptothèque Ny-Carlsberg, text to Pls. XXI-IV. Arndt believes that the right arm with the palm in the hand is modern, like the head and left arm; they are of a different marble from the torso. The torso is a replica of a statue in the Villa Albani, Rome: op. cit., fig. 13; cf. Furtwaengler, Mw., p. 738 (= god type). On representing athletes in the act of placing wreaths on their heads with the right hand and holding palm-branches in the left, see Milchhoefer, and others, in the work already cited, Arch. Stud. H. Brunn dargebracht, pp. 62 f.