Olympic Victor Monuments

About this eBook

Author

Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871-1966

Title

Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art

Credits

Produced by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

NB: Fine Arts: Sculpture

Subject

Olympics

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 61792

Release Date

April 8, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.OLYMPIC VICTOR MONUMENTS AND GREEK ATHLETIC ART
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.THE MOST COMMON ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES.
6. 6.CORRIGENDA.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. EARLY GREEK GAMES AND PRIZES. — SPORTS IN CRETE. — ATHLETICS IN HOMER. — ORIGIN OF GREEK GAMES IN THE CULT OF THE DEAD. — EARLY HISTORY OF THE FOUR NATIONAL GAMES. — EARLY PRIZES FOR ATHLETES. — DEDICATION OF ATHLETE PRIZES. — DEDICATION OF STATUES AT OLYMPIA AND ELSEWHERE. — HONORS PAID TO VICTORS BY THEIR NATIVE CITIES. — VOTIVE CHARACTER OF VICTOR DEDICATIONS. — MISCELLANEOUS MEMORIALS TO VICTORS. — HONORARY STATUES.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VICTOR STATUES AT OLYMPIA. — SIZE OF VICTOR STATUES. — NUDITY OF VICTOR STATUES. — THE ATHLETIC HAIR-FASHION. — ICONIC AND ANICONIC STATUES. — Portrait Statues. — Aniconic Statues. — ÆSTHETIC JUDGMENTS OF CLASSICAL WRITERS. — GREEK ORIGINALS OF VICTOR STATUES. — CANONS OF PROPORTION. — ASSIMILATION OF OLYMPIC VICTOR STATUES TO TYPES OF GODS AND HEROES. — Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Hermes. — Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Apollo. — Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Herakles. — Athletes Represented as the Dioskouroi.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED AT REST. — THE APOLLO TYPE. — THE AFFILIATED SCHOOLS OF ARGOS AND SIKYON. — The School of Argos. — The School of Sikyon. — ÆGINETAN SCULPTORS. — ATTIC SCULPTORS. — GENERAL MOTIVES OF STATUES AT REST. — Adoration and Prayer. — Anointing. — Oil-scraping. — Libation-pouring. — Resting After the Contest. — ATTRIBUTES OF VICTOR STATUES. — PRIMARY ATTRIBUTES OF VICTOR STATUES. — The Victor Fillet. — Fillet-binders. — The Crown of Wild Olive. — The Palm-branch. — SECONDARY ATTRIBUTES OF VICTOR STATUES. — Hoplitodromoi. — Pentathletes. — Boxers. — Wrestlers. — Caps for Boxers, Pancratiasts, and Wrestlers. — The Swollen Ear.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. — THE TYRANNICIDES. — ANTIQUITY OF MOTION STATUES IN GREECE. — PYTHAGORAS AND MYRON. — MOTION STATUES REPRESENTING VICTORS IN VARIOUS CONTESTS. — Runners: Stadiodromoi, Diaulodromoi, Dolichodromoi. — The Statue of the Runner Ladas. — Statues of Boy Runners. — Hoplitodromoi. — Pentathletes. — Jumpers. — Diskoboloi. — Akontistai. — Wrestlers. — Boxers. — Pancratiasts.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. MONUMENTS OF HIPPODROME AND MUSICAL VICTORS. — PROGRAMME OF HIPPODROME EVENTS. — REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CHARIOT-RACE. — CHARIOT-GROUPS AT OLYMPIA. — REMAINS OF CHARIOT-GROUPS. — THE APOBATES CHARIOT-RACE. — STATUES OF CHARIOTEERS. — DEDICATIONS OF VICTORS IN THE HORSE-RACE AT OLYMPIA AND ELSEWHERE. — MONUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE HORSE-RACE. — THE APOBATES HORSE-RACE. — DEDICATIONS OF MUSICAL VICTORS AT OLYMPIA AND ELSEWHERE.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. TWO MARBLE HEADS FROM VICTOR STATUES. 2022 — THE GROUP OF DAOCHOS AT DELPHI, AND LYSIPPOS. — THE APOXYOMENOS OF THE VATICAN, AND LYSIPPOS. — THE AGIAS AND THE APOXYOMENOS COMPARED, AND THE STYLE OF LYSIPPOS. — THE HEAD FROM OLYMPIA. — THE OLYMPIA HEAD AND THAT OF THE AGIAS. — IDENTIFICATION OF THE OLYMPIA HEAD. — THE DATES OF PHILANDRIDAS AND LYSIPPOS. — LYSIPPOS AS A WORKER IN MARBLE, AND STATUE “DOUBLES.” — HEAD OF A STATUE OF A BOY FROM SPARTA, AND THE ART OF SKOPAS. — COMPARISON OF THE TEGEA HEADS AND THE HEAD FROM SPARTA. — THE STYLES OF SKOPAS AND LYSIPPOS COMPARED. — THE SPARTA HEAD COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE PHILANDRIDAS. — THE SPARTA HEAD AN ECLECTIC WORK AND AN EXAMPLE OF ASSIMILATION.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. THE MATERIALS OF OLYMPIC VICTOR MONUMENTS, AND THE OLDEST DATED VICTOR STATUE. 2172 — THE CASE FOR BRONZE. — THE CASE FOR STONE. — THE STATUE OF ARRHACHION AT PHIGALIA. — EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE ON EARLY GREEK SCULPTURE. — EARLY VICTOR STATUES AND THE “APOLLO” TYPE.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. POSITIONS OF VICTOR STATUES IN THE ALTIS; OLYMPIC VICTOR MONUMENTS ERECTED OUTSIDE OLYMPIA; STATISTICS OF OLYMPIC VICTOR STATUARIES. 2293 — STATUES MENTIONED BY PAUSANIAS. — The First Ephodos of Pausanias. — The Second Ephodos of Pausanias. — SUMMARY OF RESULTS. — STATUES NOT MENTIONED BY PAUSANIAS, BUT KNOWN FROM RECOVERED BASES. — OLYMPIC VICTOR MONUMENTS ERECTED OUTSIDE OLYMPIA. — SUMMARY OF RESULTS. — STATISTICS OF OLYMPIC VICTOR STATUARIES.
15. 15.FOOTNOTES
16. 16.INDEX.

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