Category: History - Ancient
two original marble heads from lost victor statues, one of which is ascribed to Lysippos, the great bronze-founder and art-reformer of the fourth century B. C., while the other is regarded as an early Hellenistic work of eclectic tendencies. The publication of these marble hea...
(23.1), and first mentions a statue of Zeus set up by the Greeks who fought at Platæa; in describing the victor statues he says that the chariot of Kleosthenes stands behind thi...
14. CHAPTER III.We have seen[816] that it was a very old custom in Greece to dedicate statues of victors at the great national games to the god in whose honor the games were held. On many sites...
13. CHAPTER II.Only a few insignificant remnants of the forest of victor statues which once stood in the Altis at Olympia were unearthed by the German excavators. Most of these statues already...
16. Chapter II, in connection with the subject of assimilation.The race in armor had a practical value in the training of soldiers, and so became a popular sport, since it appealed not only to the trained athlete, but to the citizen in gene...
11. CHAPTER I.Before attempting to trace historically the development of monuments of victors in the gymnic and hippic contests at Olympia, and before attempting to reconstruct their differen...
18. CHAPTER VI.If in these later years our knowledge of Skopas has been greatly augmented by the discovery of the Tegea heads (Fig. 73), that of Lysippos has been almost revolutionized. With t...
17. CHAPTER V.In the preceding chapters we have considered the monuments of victors in various gymnic contests, in which the victor won by his own strength and skill. In the present chapter w...
15. CHAPTER IV.Just when the important step of representing the victor in motion instead of at rest was taken in Greek athletic sculpture we can not definitely say. The statement of Cornelius...
19. CHAPTER VII.It has been assumed pretty generally by archæologists that the victor statues set up in the Altis at Olympia were uniformly of bronze. Scherer, in his inaugural dissertation _de...
10. CHAPTER VIII.7 A and B. Statues of so-called _Apollos_. A. The _Apollo Choiseul-Gouffier_. British Museum, London. After _Marbles and Bronzes in the British Museum_, Pl. III B. The _Apollo-o...
20. CHAPTER VIII.The first part of this final chapter is a special study in the topography of the Altis at Olympia. It is an attempt to fix, more or less exactly, the positions of victor statues...
2. Chapter VI gives a stylistic analysis of what are conceived to betwo original marble heads from lost victor statues, one of which is ascribed to Lysippos, the great bronze-founder and art-reformer of the fourth century B. C., while the other...
12. Chapter VIII.At Olympia, as elsewhere in Greece, statues were set up to men _honoris causa_. Such statues would be dedicated by admirers, either individuals or states. They were in no sense...
8. CHAPTER VI.5. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER II.3. CHAPTER I.6. CHAPTER IV.7. CHAPTER V.9. CHAPTER VII.1. Chapter V relates chiefly to the monuments of hippodrome victors, those