In abbreviations of the names of journals (see pages XVI-XIX) I have largely conformed with the usage long recommended by the American Journal of Archæology.

For convenience in identifying the many works of art, discussed or mentioned in the text and foot-notes, I have constantly referred to well-known collections of plates, such as those of Brunn-Bruckmann, Bulle, Rayet, and von Mach. For further convenience, I have also in most cases referred to the outline drawings of statues in Reinach’s Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, and in some cases to the older ones found in Clarac’s Musée de sculpture antique et moderne, and in Mueller and Wieseler’s Denkmaeler der alten Kunst.

In closing, I have the pleasant duty of thanking generally the many friends who have given me valuable suggestions and assistance, especially Professor Lane Cooper, of Cornell University, for reading the proof-sheets of the entire work, and Professor Alfred Emerson, now of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, my former teacher, for revising the list of Corrigenda.

Walter Woodburn Hyde.

University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, October, 1921.

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]