Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art

by Walter Woodburn Hyde

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. The Most Common Abbreviations Used in the Notes
  4. Corrigenda
  5. Chapter I. Early Greek Games and Prizes
  6. Sports in Crete
  7. Athletics in Homer
  8. Origin of Greek Games in the Cult of the Dead
  9. Early History of the Four National Games
  10. Early Prizes for Athletes
  11. Dedication of Athlete Prizes
  12. Dedication of Statues at Olympia and Elsewhere
  13. Honors Paid to Victors by Their Native Cities
  14. Votive Character of Victor Dedications
  15. Miscellaneous Memorials to Victors
  16. Honorary Statues
  17. Chapter II. General Characteristics of Victor Statues at Olympia
  18. Size of Victor Statues
  19. Nudity of Victor Statues
  20. The Athletic Hair-Fashion
  21. Iconic and Aniconic Statues
  22. Æsthetic Judgments of Classical Writers
  23. Greek Originals of Victor Statues
  24. Canons of Proportion
  25. Assimilation of Olympic Victor Statues to Types of Gods and Heroes
  26. Chapter III. Victor Statues Represented at Rest
  27. The Apollo Type
  28. The Affiliated Schools of Argos and Sikyon
  29. Æginetan Sculptors
  30. Attic Sculptors
  31. General Motives of Statues at Rest
  32. Attributes of Victor Statues
  33. Primary Attributes of Victor Statues
  34. Hoplitodromoi
  35. Chapter IV. Victor Statues Represented in Motion
  36. The Tyrannicides
  37. Antiquity of Motion Statues in Greece
  38. Pythagoras and Myron
  39. Motion Statues Representing Victors in Various Contests
  40. Chapter V. Monuments of Hippodrome and Musical Victors
  41. Programme of Hippodrome Events
  42. Representations of the Chariot-Race
  43. Chariot-Groups at Olympia
  44. Remains of Chariot-Groups
  45. The Apobates Chariot-Race
  46. Statues of Charioteers
  47. Dedications of Victors in the Horse-Race at Olympia and Elsewhere
  48. Monuments Illustrating the Horse-Race
  49. The Apobates Horse-Race
  50. Dedications of Musical Victors at Olympia and Elsewhere
  51. The Group of Daochos at Delphi, and Lysippos
  52. The Apoxyomenos of the Vatican, and Lysippos
  53. The Agias and the Apoxyomenos Compared, and the Style of Lysippos
  54. The Head from Olympia
  55. The Olympia Head and That of the Agias
  56. Identification of the Olympia Head
  57. The Dates of Philandridas and Lysippos
  58. Lysippos as a Worker in Marble, and Statue “Doubles.”
  59. Head of a Statue of a Boy from Sparta, and the Art of Skopas
  60. Comparison of the Tegea Heads and the Head from Sparta
  61. The Styles of Skopas and Lysippos Compared
  62. The Sparta Head Compared with That of the Philandridas
  63. The Sparta Head an Eclectic Work and an Example of Assimilation
  64. Chapter VII. The Materials of Olympic Victor Monuments, and the Oldest Dated Victor Statue
  65. The Case for Bronze
  66. The Case for Stone
  67. The Statue of Arrhachion at Phigalia
  68. Egyptian Influence on Early Greek Sculpture
  69. Early Victor Statues and the “Apollo” Type
  70. Chapter VIII. Positions of Victor Statues in the Altis; Olympic Victor Monuments Erected Outside Olympia; Statistics of Olympic Victor Statuaries
  71. Statues Mentioned by Pausanias
  72. Summary of Results
  73. Statues Not Mentioned by Pausanias, but Known from Recovered Bases
  74. Olympic Victor Monuments Erected Outside Olympia
  75. Summary of Results
  76. Statistics of Olympic Victor Statuaries

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