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[8] XV, 679 f. F. Marx, _Jb._, IV, 1889, pp. 119 f., on the analogy
to certain coin types, saw in this fresco a representation of river
divinities.
[9] Mosso, _op. cit._, p. 298, fig. 98.
[10] See Mosso, p. 311, fig. 153.
[11] Here the paved space measures only about 30 by 40 feet and the
two tiers of seats would seat only 400 to 500 spectators: _B. S. A._,
IX, 1902-03, p. 105, fig. 69; see Mosso, p. 315, fig. 154, and Baikie,
_The Sea Kings of Crete_, 1913, Pls. XXI (before restoration), XXII
(restored).
[12] See Burrows, _The Discoveries in Crete_, 1907, p. 5. The one at
Knossos maybe the “choros” wrought by Daidalos for Ariadne: _Iliad_,
XVIII, 590-2.
[13] _B. S. A._, VIII, 1901-2, pp. 72-4, fig. 39 (arm); Pls. II, III;
Baikie, _op. cit._, Pl. XIX; H. R. Hall, _Aegean Archæology_, Pl. XXX,
2; Mosso, _op. cit._, p. 222, fig. 102; _cf._ Burrows, _op. cit._, p.
21; Bulle, p. 49, fig. 7; Springer-Michaelis, p. 103, fig. 228.
[14] Remains of copper wire with gold foil twisted around it still
adhere to the head of one statuette.
[15] See Mosso, _op. cit._, p. 221, fig. 101; _B. S. A._, VII, 1900-01,
p. 88.
[16] Hall, _Aegean Archæology_, pp. 55-6. Though discovered in 1889
in a bee-hive tomb near Sparta, these famous cups are obviously
importations from Crete, the work of an artist of the late Minoan I
period. Similarly, the lion-hunt on the dagger-blade from Mycenæ is
akin to Cretan art, if not its product. These cups have been often
pictured: _e. g._, _Arch. Eph._, 1889, Pl. IX; Schuchhardt, Pl. III
(App., pp. 350 f.); _B. C. H._, IV, 1891, Pls. XI-XII (in color),
XIII-XIV; Tsountas-Manatt, _op. cit._, pp. 227-8, figs. 113-114;
Perrot-Chipiez, VI, Pl. XV (in color) and pp. 786-7, figs. 369-370;
H. B. Walters, _op. cit._, Pl. V; Mosso, _op. cit._, pp. 223 f.,
figs. 103, a, b, and 104, a, b, c; Hall, _op. cit._, Pl. XV. 1,
and _cf. id._, _Ancient History of the Near East_, pp. 54-5, n. 1;
Springer-Michaelis, pp. 104-5, figs. 230 a, b; J. H. Breasted, _Ancient
Times_, 1916, fig. 140, opp. p. 234.
[17] This interpretation of the scene has been compared with the design
of a lion and goat on the short sword-blade from the chieftain’s
grave at Knossos: see Burrows, _op. cit._, p. 88 and _cf._ pp. 136-7.
Here there are two successive scenes; first the agrimi (wild goat) is
startled and springs away; then the lion is represented triumphant at
the end of the chase with one paw on the beast’s hind quarter and the
other raised to strike: see Evans, _Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos_,
1906, p. 57, fig. 59; _cf._ also bronze inlaid dagger-blade from
Mycenæ, showing hunting scenes on each face; Perrot-Chipiez, VI, Pl.
XVII, 1 (panther hunting wild ducks, in color), XVIII, 3-4, (lion-hunt
by men and lions chasing gazelles, in color); _cf._ Tsountas-Manatt,
_op. cit._, pp. 200-2; Springer-Michaelis, Pl. V, 2a, b, 3;
Schuchhardt, _op. cit._, p. 229, fig. 227; _cf._ Burrows, _op. cit._,
p. 136.
[18] _Op. cit._, pp. 224-5.
[19] See Boeckh, p. 319, on _Pyth._, II, 78. The same word occurs also
in an inscription on a late relief from Smyrna, which shows horsemen
pursuing bulls, leaping on their backs and seizing their horns; _C. I.
G._, II, 3212; also in an inscription from Sinope: _ibid._, III, 4157
(line 5); an inscription from Aphrodisias calls such men ταυροκαθάπται;
_ibid._, II, Add., 2759b. The evidence shows that Gardiner, p. 9, n.
2, is wrong in connecting the _taurokathapsia_ with the hunting-field
instead of with the circus. He cites the Smyrna relief above mentioned
(in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, no. 219), which, however, should
be interpreted as an acrobatic scene. See J. Baunack, _Rhein. Mus._,
XXXVIII, 1883, pp. 293 f., who discusses bull-fighting in Thessaly and
Rome and quotes five inscriptions of Hellenic times to show that beast
fights were common in Asia Minor.
[20] _Cf._ Mosso, _op. cit._, pp. 214-215.
[21] Iliad, XVIII, 605-6 (= Od., IV, 18-19).
[22] Iliad, XVI, 742-50.
[23] Hdt., VI, 129.
[24] No. 243; see Salzmann, _Le Nécropole de Cameiros_, Pl. LVII;
Gardiner, p. 245, fig. 39.
[25] _E. g._, on one found at Knossos in 1903: _B. S. A._, IX, 1902-3,
p. 57, and fig. 35 on p. 56. Here the attitude of the boxer is almost
identical with that on the pyxis to be described below. A fuller design
of the same sort may be seen on a seal from Hagia Triada mentioned in
_B. S. A._, IX, p. 57, n. 2.
[26] Hall, _Aegean Archæology_, p. 33 (c. 1600 B. C.); for description,
_ibid._, pp. 61-2.
[27] _Op. cit._, p. 211. In this respect it should be compared with
the relief on the archaic (sixth-century B. C.) Attic tripod vase from
Tanagra, now in Berlin, which shows scenes of boxing, wrestling, and
running: _A. Z._, III, 1881, pp. 30 f. and Pls. III, IV.
[28] P., V, 8. 1, says Klymenos came from Crete fifty years after
Deukalion’s flood and held games at Olympia; _cf._ VI, 21.6. Aristotle
assigns the whole political and educational system of Sparta to a
Cretan origin: _Politics_, II, 10f., 1271b., f.
[29] See R. Paribeni, _Rendiconti della R. Accad. dei Lincei_, XII,
1903, fasic. 70, p. 17; F. Halbherr, _ibid._, XIV, 1905, pp. 365 f.,
fig. 1; Burrows, _op. cit._, Pl. 1; Mosso, _op. cit._, p. 212. fig.
93; Hall, _Aegean Archæology_, Pl. XVI (from cast in Museum of Candia,
whence our plate); _cf. id._, _Anc. Hist. Near East_, Pl. IV., 5. A
copy is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York: see _Hbk. of Classical
Collection_, p. 16, fig. 8.
[30] Detail of zone, Mosso, p. 213, fig. 94. The acrobat wears just
such striped boots and bracelets as the man and women on the fresco
from Knossos. The man binding the legs of the bull on the Vapheio
cup wears similar apparel. Similar scenes of gymnasts vaulting over
a bull’s back are seen on the seal of a bracelet found at Knossos in
1902: _B. S. A._, VIII, 1901-2, p. 18, fig. 43; Mosso, p. 214, fig.
95a; also on the intaglio of a ring in Athens: Mosso, p. 215, fig. 95b.
Scenes of gymnasts with bulls at rest are common on seal impressions:
_e. g._, on one from Mycenæ in Athens, Mosso, p. 217, fig. 97; on the
one in Candia already mentioned, _ibid._, fig. 98; _cf._ Bosanquet,
Excavations at Praisos, _B. S. A._, VIII, p. 252, who believes the bull
has been surprised by a hunter.
[31] Iliad, XXII, 308 f.
[32] XXIII, 673.
[33] _B. S. A._, VII, 1900-1, fig. 31, pp. 95 and 96; copied by
Gardiner, p. 10, fig. 1.
[34] We should bear in mind that the civilization pictured in the
Homeric poems antedates 1000 B. C.
[35] _The Iliad_,^2 1900, II, p. 468.
[36] Od., VIII, 158 f. (translated by Butcher and Lang).
[37] Gardiner, p. 15, points out that there is no mention of
a chariot-race in the Odyssey, merely because Ithaca was not a land
“that pastureth horses,” nor had it “wide courses or meadowland.” The
plains of Thessaly and Argos, the homes of Achilles and Agamemnon
respectively, were, however, famed for their horses, and the plain
of Troy was large enough for the chariot-race. The only other
chariot-races mentioned in the Iliad are held in Elis: XI, 696 f.;
XXIII, 630 f.
[38] _E. g._, on certain sarcophagi: see Murray, _Sarcophagi
in the British Museum_, Pls. II, III (one from Klazomenai).
[39] The true _hoplomachia_ described by Homer and later
practised by the Mantineans and Kyreneans (_cf._ Athenæus, IV, 41, p.
154) should not be confounded, as Gardiner, p. 21, n. 3, remarks, with
the later competition of the same name held at the Athenian _Theseia_
and taught in the gymnasia, which was a purely military exercise like
fencing: Plato, _Laches_, 182B and _passim_; _Gorgias_, 456D; _de
Leg._, 833E; _cf._ Dar.-Sagl., _s. v._ _Hoplomachia_.
[40] _E. g._, Leaf, in his _Companion to the Iliad_, 1892, p.
380; _id._, _The Iliad_, II, p. 417, note on line 621.
[41] Iliad, XXIII, 634 f.; _ibid._, 621-3, where Achilles
gives Nestor a prize because he will never again be able to contend in
boxing, wrestling, hurling the javelin, or running. In Od., VIII, 103
and 128, leaping is substituted for chariot-racing.
[42] _E. g._, Iliad, XXII, 163-4: “The great prize ... of a
man that is dead”; XXIII, 630 f., where Nestor recalls victories in the
games held by the Epeians at Bouprasion in Elis at the funeral of the
local hero Amarynkeus. Bouprasion is also mentioned in Iliad, XI, 756,
in Nestor’s story of the war between the Pylians and Epeians and of
the war waged by his father Neleus on Augeas, for stealing four horses
which had been sent to Elis to contend for a tripod.
[43] Examples of panegyric games in honor of gods are found
also in the Homeric Hymn to the Delian Apollo, I, 146 f.; in Pindar,
_Ol._, IX. 6 (Zeus); P., VIII, 2.1 (Zeus) and schol.; and Hdt., I, 144
(Apollo) and schol.; etc.
[44] P., VIII, 4.5. For other examples of funeral games, see
references in Krause, p. 9, n. 3. He also shows that musical contests
were funerary in character.
[45] The scholiast on Pindar, _Nem._, Argum., Boeckh, p. 424
B, and _Isthm._, Argum., p. 514, calls the Nemean and Isthmian games
funerary; Clem. Alex., _Protrept._, Ch. II, 34, 29 P. (quoted by
Eusebios, _Praep. evang._, II, 6, 72 b. c.) says that all four great
games were funerary in origin.
[46] P., I., 44.8; Clem. Alex., _Strom._, I, Ch. 21, 137, 401
P.
[47] P., II, 15.2-3; Apollod., III, 6, 4; Hyginus, _Fab._,
74; schol. on Pindar’s _Nem._, Argum. Here the umpires wore mourning
garments because of the origin of the games; see Gardiner, p. 225.
[48] Aristotle, _Peplos_, frag. = _F. H. G._, II, p. 189, no.
282; Clem. Alex., _Protr._, Ch. I, 2, 2 P. and Ch. II, 34, 29 P.; Hyg.,
_Fab._, 140. For a different story of the founding (to appease Apollo
for not protecting the temple when Delphi was invaded by Danaos), see
Augustine, _de Civ. Dei_, XVIII, 12; _cf._ schol. on Pind., _Pyth._,
Argum.; Ovid, _Met._, I, 445f. The _Pythia_ were reorganized by the
Amphictyons as a funeral contest in honor of the soldiers who fell in
the first Sacred War.
[49] _Cf._ P., V, 13.1-2; Clem. Alex., _l. c._
[50] V, 7.6-9.
[51] See Strabo, VIII, 3.30 (C.354-5); Pindar, _Ol._, II, 3
f.; VI, 67 f.; X, 25 f.; Diod., IV, 14 and V, 64. According to Pindar,
_ll. cc._ and the scholiast on _Ol._, II, 2, 5, and 7, Boeckh, pp.
58-9, Herakles, the son of Zeus, instituted the games in honor of
Zeus; but Statius, _Theb._, VI, 5 f., Solinus, I, 28 (ed. Mommsen),
Hyg., _Fab._, 273. Clem. Alex., _Strom._, I, Ch. 21, 137, say it was
in honor of Pelops. On the traditional connection of Herakles with
Olympia, see E. Curtius, _Abh. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. zu Berlin,
philos.-histor. Kl._, 1894, pp. 1098 f.; Busolt, _Griech. Gesch_^2,
1893, I, pp. 240 f. On legends of the early history of Olympia, see
Krause, _Olympia, oder Darstellung der grossen olympischen Spielen_,
1838, pp. 26 f.
[52] _Cf._ Frazer, II, pp. 549-50; Krause, p. 9, n. 3; from
these two many of the following examples are taken. _Cf._ also Rouse,
pp. 4 and 10; Koerte, Die Entstehung der Olympionikenliste, _Hermes_,
XXXIX, 1904, pp. 224 f.; Krause, _Die Pythien, Nemeen und Isthmien_,
1841, pp. 9 f. (Pythian), 112 f. (Nemean), 170 f. (Isthmian); Gardiner,
pp. 27 f.; see also Ridgeway, _Origin of Tragedy_, 1910, pp. 36, 38,
and _cf._ _J. H. S._, XXXI, 1911, p. XLVII. Since the simple theory
of the origin of the Olympic Festival in the funeral games in honor
of Pelops does not explain all the legends of the games nor all the
peculiar customs of the festival, and because of the inadequate
character of the literary evidence (the earliest mention of it being a
Delphic oracle quoted by Phlegon, _F. H. G._, p. 604; _cf._ Clem. Alex.,
_Protrept_, II, 34, p. 29), it has been attacked by F. M. Cornford
(in Miss Harrison’s _Themis_, pp. 212 f.) and others. These scholars
have tried to find the origin of the Olympic games rather in a ritual
contest of succession to the throne, the honors extended to a victor
being held to prove his kingly or divine character. The theory was
first proposed by A. B. Cook, The European Sky God, _Folk Lore_, 1904,
and has recently been elaborated by Frazer in his _Golden Bough_,^3
III, pp. 89 f., who has attempted to harmonize it with his earlier
funeral theory. The inadequacy of the newer theory has been shown by E.
N. Gardiner, The Alleged Kingship of the Olympic Victor, _B. S. A._,
XXII, 1916-18, pp. 85 f. For a review of his paper, see also _J. H.
S._, XXXVIII, 1918, pp. XLVII.
[53] V, 13.2.
[54] According to the same scholiast, on 1. 149; Boeckh, p.
43.
[55] _Cf._ _C. I. G._, II, 1969, ἀγὼν ... ἐπιτάφιος θεματικός.
[56] Hdt., VI, 38.
[57] P., III, 14.1.
[58] Thukyd., V, 11.
[59] Plut., _Timoleon_, 39; Diod. Sic., XVI, 90.1.
[60] Aulus Gellius, X, 18.5.
[61] Arrian, _Anabasis_, VII, 14. Games were held every four
years in honor of Antinoos, the favorite of Hadrian, at Mantinea: P.,
VIII, 9.8.
[62] Strabo, XIV, 1.31 (C. 644.)
[63] P., IX, 2, 5-6; he says that they were celebrated every
fourth year and that the chief prizes were for running.
[64] Philostr., _Vit. Soph._, II, p. 624; Heliod., _Aethiop._,
I, 17; Aristotle, _Constit. of Athens_, 58; _cf._ P., I, 29.4. Games
were also held in the Academy in honor of Eurygyes: Hesych., _s. v._
ἐπ’ Εὐρυγύῃ ἀγών.
[65] Dennis, _Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria_,^3 1883, I, p.
374 (Corneto); II, pp. 323 and 330 (Chiusi).
[66] On the Etruscan origin of the _ludi funebres_, see
Val. Max., II, 4.4; Tertullian, _de Spect._, 12; Servius _ad_ Virg.,
_Aen._, X, 520. For the Etruscan origin of the _munera gladiatorum_,
see Tertull., _op. cit._, 5; Athenæus, IV, 39 (quoting Nikolaos of
Damascus); _cf._ Strabo, V, 4.13 (C. 250). They were first introduced
into Rome in 264 B. C. in honor of D. Junius Brutus; Livy, XVI (Epit.);
and are frequently mentioned: _e. g._, by Livy, XXIII, 30, 15; XXXI,
50, 4; XXXIX, 46, 2; XLI, 28, 11; Polyb., XXXII, 14, 5; Serv., _ad
Aen._, III, 67 and V, 78; Suetonius, _Julius_, 26; etc. See Dar.-Sagl.,
II, 2, pp. 1384 f., 1563 f.
[67] Page 28; he quotes P. W. Joyce, _Social History of
Ireland_, II, pp. 435 f.
[68] V, 17.5-19.10. The description of the throne (P., III,
18.9 f; _cf._ Apollodoros, I, 9.28) is merely summary, as Pausanias
only mentions the games represented on it without describing them in
detail.
[69] The best reconstruction of the scenes on the chest is by
H. Stuart Jones: _J. H. S._, XIV, 1894, pp. 30-80 and Pl. I (repeated
by Frazer, III, Pl. X, opp. p. 606). See also Robert, _Hermes_, XXIII,
1888, pp. 436 f.; Pernice, _Jb._, III, 1888, pp. 365 f.; Studniczka,
_Jb._, IX, 1894, pp. 52 f., n. 16; Collignon, I, pp. 93-100; Furtw.,
_Mw._, pp. 723-32.
The best attempt to reconstruct the scenes on the throne is by Furtwaengler
_Mw._, fig. 135, opposite p. 706; text, pp. 689-719; _cf._ the best of
the older attempts by Brunn, _Rhein. Mus._, N. F., V, 1847, p. 325;
_id._, _Kunst bei Homer_, pp. 22 f.; _id._, _Griech. Kunstgesch._,
1893, I, pp. 178 f. _Cf._ also Klein, _Arch.-epigr. Mitt. aus
Oesterr.-Ungarn_, IX, 1885, pp. 145 f.; against Klein, see Pernice, as
above, p. 369. _Cf._ Collignon, I, pp. 230-2; Murray, I, pp. 89 f.] [
[70] If we followed Pausanias’ account that this was the very
chest made to save the infant Kypselos, father of Periandros and future
tyrant of Corinth, and that it was dedicated at Olympia by the Kypselid
family (for the story, see Hdt., V, 92), the chest would belong to the
eighth century B. C., and must have been dedicated before 586-5 B.
C., when the Kypselid dynasty ended at Corinth; see Busolt, _Griech.
Gesch._,^2 I, pp. 638 and 657. However, the chest at Olympia had
nothing to do with the legendary one, but was merely a richly decorated
offering to the gods, the work of a Corinthian artist of the end of the
seventh or beginning of the sixth century B. C., and one who knew the
epic poems well.
[71] _Vasen_, 1655; Perrot-Chipiez, IX, p. 637, fig. 348
(departure of Amphiaraos); p. 639, fig. 349 (chariot-race); Gardiner,
p. 29, fig. 3; Frazer, III, p. 609, fig. 77; Baum. I, fig. 69; and see
Robert _Annali_, XLVI, 1874, pp. 82 f.; _Mon. d. I._, X, 1874-1878,
Pls. IV, V. The discovery of this vase at Cerveteri (Caere) in 1872
proved the Corinthian workmanship of the chest.
[72] Micali, _Monumenti per servire all’historia degli antichi
popoli Italiani_^2, 1833, Pl. XCV; described by Jahn, _Archaeol.
Aufsaetze_, pp. 154 f. (quoted by Frazer, III, p. 610). For scenes
representing the departure of Amphiaraos and a four-horse chariot-race,
see also an Attic-Corinthian vase in Florence: Perrot-Chipiez, X, pp.
109 and 111, figs. 78, 79 (= Thiersch, _Tyrrhenische Amphoren_, Pl.
IV); the latter also gives us the oldest representation of a Greek
stadion.
[73] _A. Z._ XLIII, 1885, Pl. VIII; Gardiner, p. 30, fig. 4
(one side).
[74] Cited by Gardiner, pp. 30-31; Inghirami, _Mon. Etr._,
1821-1826, III, 19, 20; Schreiber, _Bilder-atlas_, Pl. XIII, 6; M. W.,
I, Pl. LX, fig. 302b.
[75] Reproduced by Gardiner, p. 21, fig. 2.
[76] _Cf._ on this topic, Gardiner, pp. 31-2; _cf._ _B. S.
A._, XXII, 1916-18, p. 86, where, in speaking of the disputed origin
of the custom of funeral games, he says: “It is at least conceivable
that it originated from different causes in different places and among
different peoples.”
[77] See a list of twenty-five local _Olympia_ in Smith’s
_Dictionary of Antiquities_,^3 1891, II, pp. 273 f., _s. v._ _Olympia_,
taken from Krause, _Olympia_, pp. 202 f. Dar.-Sagl., IV, i, pp. 194 f.,
list 34 local _Olympia_. Most of these lesser _Olympia_ are known to us
only from inscriptions and coins. Peisistratos appears to have founded
annual _Olympia_ at Athens, when he began to build the Olympieion;
Pindar seems to allude to them in _Nem._ II, 23 (_cf._ schol. _ad
loc._); they were reorganized magnificently by Hadrian in A. D. 131;
Spartianus, _Vit. Hadriani_, 13. _Cf._ Gardiner, p. 229.
[78] Lysias, _Paneg._, notes this fact, when he says that
Herakles restored peace and unity by instituting the games. Pausanias
speaks similarly of the restoration of the games by Iphitos and
Lykourgos: V, 4.5 f.
[79] P., V, 1.3; 3.6; Strabo, VIII, 3.33 (C.357).
[80] The decree governing the festival was inscribed on a
diskos, which dates probably from the seventh century B. C., and was
preserved in the Heraion down to the time of Pausanias. On it the names
of Iphitos and Lykourgos were legible down to Aristotle’s day: P., V,
20.1; Plut., _Lycurgus_, I. 1. Phlegon, _F. H. G._, III, p. 602, and a
scholion on Plato, _de Rep._, 465 D, mention Kleosthenes; _cf._ Louis
Dyer, _Harvard Classical Studies_, 1908, pp. 40 f.; Gardiner, p. 43, n.
1.
[81] For a discussion of the sources and history of this
register, originally compiled near the end of the fifth century B. C.
by Hippias of Elis (Plut., _Numa_, I, 4; _cf._ Mahaffy, _J. H. S._, II,
1881, pp. 164f.), and revised by various later writers from Aristotle
and Philochoros to Phlegon of Tralles and Julius Africanus, see
Juethner, _Ph._, pp. 60-70. From it a complete list of stade-runners
was copied by the church-historian Eusebios from Africanus, who had
brought it down to 217 A. D.
[82] V, 8.6.
[83] Mentioned by P., V, 4.6 and elsewhere; for the mythical
account see P., V, 7.6-8.5 (from Herakles to Oxylos); V, 8.5, and V,
9.4 (revived under the presidency of Iphitos and the descendants of
Oxylos). Phlegon, _F. H. G._, III, p. 603, says that the games were
discontinued for 28 Olympiads from the time of Herakles and Pelops
to that of Koroibos. Velleius Paterculus, I, 8 (ed. Halm), dates the
revival under Iphitos, 793 B. C. Strabo, quoting Ephoros, says that
the Achæans controlled Olympia to the time of Oxylos; for his mythical
account of the games, see VIII, 3.33 (C. 357). On presidents of the
games being elected from the Eleans, see P., V, 9.4-6.
[84] Especially by Xenophon, _Hell._, III, 2.31; VII, 4.28.
Pausanias omits all evidence of the part played by Kleosthenes in the
truce. See Gardiner, pp. 44 f.
[85] See Doerpfeld, _A. M._, XXXIII, 1908, pp. 185 f.
[86] Recently E. N. Gardiner has argued that the worship of
Zeus came directly from Dodona to Olympia before it had reached Crete
and that Cretan elements in the cult first appear at Olympia in the
VIII century B. C. He believes that the worship of Hera reached Olympia
from Argos later than that of Zeus, toward the end of the VIII century
B. C., when he supposes the Heraion was built as a joint temple to both
deities; _B. S. A._, XXII, 1916-18, pp. 85-86.
[87] On his cult see P., V, 13.2, and scholion on Pindar,
_Ol._ I, 146 and 149, Boeckh, p. 43. After being reduced to the rank
of hero, Pelops still kept his own precinct in the Altis throughout
antiquity.
[88] On the history of Olympia, see Gardiner, pp. 38 f.
[89] For the legends connected with the origin of the three,
see Krause, _Die Pythien, Nemeen und Isthmien_, and the various
articles in Dar.-Sagl.
[90] Schol. on Pindar, _Pyth._, Argum., Boeckh, p. 298.
[91] On the Sacred or Krisaian War (590 B. C.), see Bury,
_History of Greece_, 1913, pp. 158-9. The first Pythiad was reckoned
from 586 (not from 582 as Bury and others state): see Frazer, V, p.
244; Boeckh, _Explic. ad Pind._, _Ol._, XII, pp. 206 f.
[92] See Strabo, IX, 3.10, (C. 421); P., X, 7.4-5; schol. on
Pind., _Pyth._, Argum., Boeckh, p. 298. Ovid’s idea (_Met._, I, 445)
that boxing, running, and chariot-racing existed from the first, is
wrong. On the Pythian games, see Gardiner, pp. 208 f.
[93] On the Nemean games, see Gardiner, pp. 223-6. As no
proper excavations have been made on the site, our knowledge of the
games is confined almost entirely to literary evidence.
[94] P., II, 15.3, and VI, 16.4, mentions a winter
celebration. The scholiast on Pindar’s _Nem._, Argum., Boeckh, pp.
424-5, says that it was a τριετής held on the 12th of the month
Panemos, and so it was a summer and not a winter celebration. On
theories of two celebrations, see Frazer, II, pp. 92-3.
[95] They were not held in midsummer as some have maintained:
see Thukyd., VIII, 9-10; Unger, _Philologus_, XXXVII, 1877, 1-42;
Nissen, _Rhein. Mus._, XLII, 1887, pp. 46 f. On the Isthmian games, see
Gardiner, pp. 214 f.
[96] For the nine-day celebration of the _Great Panathenaia_,
see A. Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athen_, 1898, p. 153; _cf._ Gardiner,
pp. 229 f.
[97] See Mommsen, _op. cit._, pp. 278 f., and _Heortologie_,
1864, pp. 269 f. In recent years victor lists of the _Theseia_ have
been found: _C. I. G._, II, 444-450, esp. 447; for two other fragments,
see _A. M._, XXX, 1905, pp. 213 f, and _Beilag_, a and b (c = _C. I.
G._, above). For other lists of victors of local games, see _A. M._,
XXVIII, 1903, pp. 338 f. (Oropos, Samos, Larisa). For vase-paintings
of the athletic exploits of Theseus, see Harrison, _Mythology and
Monuments of Ancient Athens_, 1890, pp. XCVIII f.
[98] See _Ol._, IX, 89; XIII, 110; _Pyth._, VIII, 79.
[99] Iliad, XXIII, 262-70; _cf._ XXII, 163-4, where the prizes
were slave women and tripods.
[100] _Ibid._, 700-5.
[101] _Ibid._, 653-6.
[102] _Ibid._, 740-51.
[103] _Op._, 653-9; _cf. Scut._, 312-13.
[104] Iliad, XI, 700; XXIII, 264; Hesiod, _Scut._, 312. It
is thus represented on a Dipylon vase: _Mon. d. I._, IX, 1869-73, Pl.
XXXIX, 2; on the Corinthian vase representing the funeral games of
Pelias and Amphiaraos: _ibid._, X, Pl. V B; on the François vase, and
on many others.
[105] Iliad, XXII, 164; _cf._ Gerhard, IV, Pl. CCXLVII.
[106] Gerhard, IV, Pl. CCLVI.
[107] On an amphora by Nikosthenes: Klein, _Griech. Vasen mit
Meistersignaturen_,^2 1887, Pl. XXXI.
[108] Iliad, XXIII, 702, as above.
[109] Hdt., I, 144.
[110] Ion, _ap._ P., VII, 4.10.
[111] Aristeid., I, p. 841 (ed. Dindorf).
[112] Polemon _ap._ schol. on Pindar, _Ol._, VII, 153, Boeckh,
pp. 180-1.
[113] On the above-mentioned Corinthian vase: _Mon. d. I._, X,
Pls. IV, V; on the chest of Kypselos: P., V, 17.11.
[114] In the Iliad, as above.
[115] P., III, 18.7-8.
[116] _A. Z._, XL, 1882, p. 333; _B. C. H._, VI, 1882, p. 118.
[117] _B. C. H._, IX, 1885, p. 478.
[118] P., IX, 10.4; Hdt., I, 92.
[119] See Carapanos, _Dodone et ses Ruines_, 1878, pp. 40, 41,
and 229, and Pl. XXIII, 2.2 _bis_, 3, 4.
[120] P., X, 7.6.
[121] P., IV, 32.1.
[122] On the tripod, see Reisch, pp. 6-7 and 58-9; Rouse, pp.
150-1 and 355; most of the above examples have been taken from these
writers.
[123] _Nem._, X, 45 f.; _cf._ schol. on _Ol._, VII, 153,
Boeckh, pp. 180-1.
[124] _C. I. A._, II, 2, 965. On the value of bronze, _cf._
Reisch, p. 6.
[125] Schol. on Pindar, _Ol._, VII, 152, Boeckh, p. 180.
[126] _Ibid._, _Ol._, VII, 156, Boeckh, p. 181.
[127] Pindar, _Ol._, IX, 89-90.
[128] _Ibid._, _Nem._, IX, 51; X, 43 f.
[129] _Ibid._, _Nem._, X, 44; schol. on _Ol._, XIII, 155 and
VII, 156, Boeckh, pp. 288 and 156, and _Explic. ad Olymp._, IX, 102, p.
194.
[130] _C. I. A._, III, 1, 116.
[131] Schol. on Pindar, _Nem._, X, 64, Boeckh, p. 504; _cf._
_C. I. A._, II, 2, 965.
[132] _A. G._, XIII, 8.
[133] _I. G. A._, 525; _B. M. Bronzes_, 257.
[134] For many of these examples, see Reisch, pp. 57 f. (and
notes), and Rouse, pp. 150-1.
[135] At the _Panathenaia_ a golden crown was given the
victorious harpist, a hydria to the torch-racer, and an ox to the
victor in the pyrrhic chorus: _C. I. A._, II, 2, 965. Weapons were
given at Delos: _C. I. G._, II, 2360; a golden crown was given at
the Pythian games in Delphi to the city which furnished the finest
sacrificial ox: Xenophon, _Hell._, IV, 4.9; here also golden crowns and
arms were presented for soldiers’ contests: Xenophon, _ibid._, III, 4.8
and IV, 2.7.
[136] VIII, 48.2.
[137] Foerster, 7.
[138] Frag., (= _F. H. G._, III, p. 604).
[139] V, 7.7; _cf._ Pindar, _Ol._, III, 24 f.
[140] _Ol._, III, 13 f.
[141] Pseudo-Aristot., _de mirab. Auscult._, 51; schol. on
Aristoph., _Plutus_, 586; Suidas, _s. v._ κοτίνου στεφάνῳ.
[142] P., V, 15.3; _cf._ Theophrastos, _Hist. Plant._, IV, 13,
2; Pliny, _H. N._, XVI, 240.
[143] Schol. on Pindar, _Ol._, III, 60, Boeckh, p. 102.
[144] Pseudo-Aristot., _l. c._; schol. on Pindar, _Ol._, III,
60, and VIII, 12, Boeckh, pp. 102 and 189.
[145] Weniger, _Der heilige Oelbaum in Olympia_, 1895.
[146] P., X, 7.5; _Marmor Parium_, 53 f. On the reason why the
laurel was the prize for a Pythian victory, see P., X, 7.8; _cf._ VIII,
48.2 (as above); schol. on Pindar, _Pyth._, Argum., Boeckh, p. 298. On
the Delphian laurel, see also Pliny, _H. N._, XV, 127; _Dio Cass._,
LXIII, 9. Virgil crowns his victors with laurel: _Aen._, V, 246 and
539.
[147] Aelian, _Var. Hist._, III, 1; schol. on Pindar, _Pyth._,
Argum., Boeckh, p. 298.
[148] See Gardiner, p. 208, fig. 27, a coin in the British
Museum: _B. M. Coins, Delphi_, 38.
[149] _Anacharsis_, 9; see also _C. I. A._, III, 116; Kaibel,
_Epigrammata graeca_, 1878, no. 931.
[150] _Nem._, IV, 88; _Ol._, XIII, 32 f.; _Isthm._, II, 16,
VIII, 64.
[151] Schol. on Pindar, _Nem._, Argum., Boeckh, p. 426.
[152] _E. g._, P., VIII, 48.2; _cf._ Plut., _Qaest. conviv._,
V, 3.3; _Timoleon_, 26.
[153] Krause, _Die Pythien, Nemeen und Isthmien_, pp. 197 f.;
schol. on _Isthm._, Argum., Boeckh, p. 514.
[154] See _B. M. Coins, Corinth_, 509-12; 564; 602-3 (603 =
Gardiner, p. 214, fig. 28); 624; _cf._ _I. G._, II, 1320, and Gardiner,
p. 222, n. 2.
[155] P., II, 1.7. Curtius, _Peloponnesos_, II, p. 543,
believes that the pine was not a fir, but the _Pinus maritima_;
Philippson, in the _Zeitschr. d. Gesellsch. fuer Erdkunde zu Berlin_,
XXV, 1890, pp. 74 f., believes that it was the _Pinus halepensis_ Mill.
[156] See Droysen, _Hermes_, XIV, 1879, p. 3; Head, _Historia
Nummorum_, pp. 146 f.; Imhoof-Blumer and O. Keller, _Tier- und
Pflanzenbilder auf Muenzen und Gemmen_, Pl. VI, 8; VII, 2; IX, 9-12;
XXV, 19.
[157] VIII, 48.2.
[158] See Tarbell, _Class. Phil._, III, pp. 264 f.; he traces
its origin to Delos and its popularity to the restoration of the Delian
festival by the Athenians in 426 B. C.
[159] Mentioned by Phanias, _ap._ Athen., VI, 21 (232 c.)
[160] _Op._, 654 f.; _cf._ P., IX, 31.3. The spurious epigram
in _A. G._, VII, 53, may have been engraved on this tripod set up in
the temple on Mt. Helikon.
[161] P., X, 7.6.
[162] _C. I. A._, IV, 373^{79}; another is mentioned _ibid._,
I, 493.
[163] Hdt., V, 60.
[164] Hdt., I, 144.
[165] _Bronz. v. Ol._, pp. 72 f.
[166] See Rouse, pp. 153 f.
[167] V, 12.8.
[168] VI, 19.4.
[169] _Cf._ Rouse, p. 160 and Reisch, p. 62 and n. 1.
[170] See Rouse, _l. c._; for the inscription, _I. G. A._,
370.
[171] II, 29.9.
[172] _I. G. A._, XIII, 449; see discussion of both stones in
_J. H. S._, XXVII, 1907, pp. 2 f.
[173] In Ol. 255 (= 241 A. D.); Foerster, 739; _Inschr. v.
Ol._, 240-1.
[174] See _Bronz. v. 0l._, p. 179.
[175] _E. g._, the inscribed lead weight of the seventh or
sixth centuries B. C., found at Eleusis and dedicated by Epainetos: _C.
I. A._, IV, 2, 422^4; _cf. Arch. Eph._, 1883, pp. 189-91.
[176] _Bronz. v. Ol._, Textbd., p. 180; Tafelbd., Pl. LXV,
1101 a.; _cf._ another from the Cyrenaica in the British Museum: _B. M.
Bronzes_, no. 326.
[177] _C. I. G._, I, 243; _C. I. A._, III, 1, 124; _Rhein.
Mus._, XXXIV, 1879, p. 206; on prize torches, see _A. G._, VI, 100, and
_cf._ Kaibel, _Epigr. gr._, 1878, 943.
[178] Kallim., XLIX; _A. G._, VI, 311; _cf._ Reisch, pp. 62
and 145-6, figs. 13, 14; Rouse, pp. 162-3.
[179] See Reisch, p. 62, and n. 4. The flutist Straton
dedicated his flute at Thespiai in the third century B. C.: _C. I. G.
G. S._, I, 1818; a harpist his harp at Athens: _C. I. A._, III, 112.
[180] P., VI, 10.6-7.
[181] P., VI, 9.4.
[182] P., VI, 12.1
[183] P., VI, 10.8.
[184] P., VI, 16.9.
[185] P., V, 12.5; the monument consisted of bronze horses
only.
[186] P., VI, 16.6.
[187] _E. g._, chariots and drivers, _Bronz. v. Ol._,
Tafelbd., Pl. XV, 248, 248a, 249, 250; Textbd., pp. 39-40; chariots
without drivers, _ibid._, Tafelbd., Pl. XV, 252, 252a, 253; Textbd., p.
40; charioteers without chariots, _ibid._, Pl. XVI, 251; Textbd., p.
40; horses belonging to two-wheeled chariots, _ibid._, Pl. XVI, 254,
254a; Textbd., pp. 40-1.
[188] _Bronz. v. Ol._, Tafelbd., Pl. XXV, 498 f.; Textbd., p.
68.
[189] _Bronz. v. Ol._, _l. c._; he is followed by Reisch,
p. 61; Rouse, p. 166, however, thinks that they would have been an
“artistic blunder.”
[190] _E. g._, _Bronz. v. Ol._, Tafelbd., Pl. XXV, 503 f.;
Textbd., p. 69.
[191] _Ibid._, Pl. XXV, 510; some are older than the date of
the introduction of the mule-car race, Ol. 70 (= 500 B. C.), and some
may have been used as bases for animal figures: _e. g._, Pl. XXV, 509;
Textbd., p. 69.
[192] Rouse, p. 165, suggests, though without evidence, that
they may have been offered before the contest with a propitiatory
sacrifice.
[193] Pliny, _H. N._, XXXIV, 71.
[194] _Ibid._, XXXIV, 78: _fecit et quadrigas bigasque_, etc.
[195] _Ibid._, XXXIV, 63 and 64: _fecit et quadrigas multorum
generum_.
[196] P., VI, 12.1.
[197] Either in Ol. 69 (= 504 B. C.) or 70 (= 500 B. C.) or
before 67 (= 512 B. C.): Hyde, 126; Foerster, 778 (undated).
[198] P., VI, 14.4.
[199] The father won κέλητι in Ol. 66 or 67 (= 516 or 512 B.
C.): Hyde, 120; Foerster, 129 and 149a; P., VI, 13.9; the sons won
in the same event in Ol. 68 (= 508 B. C.): Hyde, 121, and pp. 50-51;
Foerster, 152; P., VI, 13.10.
[200] VI, 2.1-2; he won in the heavy-armed race and in
charioteering in Ols. (?) 83, 84, (= 448, 444 B. C.): Hyde, 12;
Foerster, 211a; Foerster believes that the two statues represented
Lykinos and his charioteer, and that they stood in the chariot, which
is not mentioned by Pausanias.
[201] So Foerster, _l. c._; see also Robert, O. S., p.
176; Rutgers, p. 144; and Klein, _Archaeol.-epigr. Mitt. aus
Oesterr.-Ungarn_, VII, 1883, p. 70. For an improbable view, see Brunn,
I, p. 479.
[202] P., VI, 12.1.
[203] Pliny, _H. N._, XXIV, 75.
[204] _Ibid._, XXXIV, 78.
[205] _Ibid._, XXXIV, 19.
[206] _Bronz. v. Ol._, Tafelbd., Pl. XV, 255-7; XVI, 258;
Textbd., p. 41; terra-cotta horses, _ibid._, XVII, 267-75; Textbd., pp.
43-4.
[207] See Rouse, p. 167.
[208] Pindar, _Pyth._, V, 34 f.
[209] _C. I. A._, IV, 2, p. 89, 373^{99}; _cf._ _Arch. Eph._,
1887, p. 146 (inscribed base reproduced).
[210] Mentioned by the pseudo-Plutarch, _Vit. X Orat._, IV
(Isokrates), 42, p. 839 c
[211] Pindar’s _Pyth._ XII celebrates the victory of Midas of
Akragas in flute-playing; he won in Pyth. 24 and 25 (= 490 and 486 B.
C.)
[212] _H. N._, XXXV, 58; both at Corinth and Delphi.
[213] Strabo, VIII, 6. 20 (C. 378); Aristeid., _Isthm._,
45; Livy, XXXIII, 32. Dio Chrysostom has graphically described the
crowds of spectators who still frequented the _Isthmia_ in the first
century A. D.: _Orat._, VII (Διογένης ἢ περὶ ἀρετῆς); VIII (Διογένης ἢ
Ἰσθμικός); _cf._ Gardiner, p. 173.
[214] Plutarch, _Solon_, 23; Diog. Laert., 1, 55: etc.
[215] For a list of victors, see Krause, _Die Pythien, Nemeen
und Isthmien_, pp. 209 f.
[216] See Julian, _Epist._, XXXV.
[217] See Monceaux on the excavation of the temple of
Poseidon, _Gaz. arch._, IX, 1884, pp. 358 f.
[218] Lucian, _Nero_, 2, says Olympia was the “most athletic”
of all; Bacchylides, XII, emphasizes the athletic character of Nemea.
[219] The boys’ pentathlon was introduced in the fifty-third
Nemead (= 467 B. C.) and the pankration for boys earlier: _cf._ Pindar,
_Nem._, V (in honor of the boy pancratiast Pytheas of Aegina; _cf._
Bacchylides, XIII); VII (in honor of the boy pentathlete Sogenes of
Aegina, who won in Nem. 54); IV and VI (in honor of two Aeginetan boy
wrestlers). The horse-race for boys is mentioned by P., VI, 16.4. Races
in armor were also important: Ph., 7.
[220] See Gardiner, pp. 223 f.; list of victors in Krause,
_op. cit._, pp. 147 f.
[221] X, 9.2 (Frazer’s transl.).
[222] See Foucart and Wescher, _Inscriptions recueillies à
Delphes_, 1863, no. 469; Haussoulier, _B. C. H._, VI, 1882, pp. 217
f.; Couve, _ibid._, XVIII, 1894, pp. 70-100. One is in honor of the
Corinthian singer Aristonos, who composed a hymn to Apollo, found at
Delphi: _ibid._, XVII, 1893, pp. 563 f. A Samian flutist, Satyros,
gained a prize without contest and recited a choral ode called
_Dionysos_ in the stadion, and played an air from Euripides’ _Bacchae_
on the lyre; _ibid._, XVII, pp. 84 f. Native towns erected statues
to musical victors: _C. I. G._, I., nos. 1719-20. One inscription
records the rules to be observed by runners, who could not drink new
wine, etc.: _J. H. S._, XVI, 1896, p. 343 and _Berliner Philolog.
Wochenschr._, XVI, 1896, p. 831 (June 27); _cf._ Frazer, V, p. 260. The
base of a statue of a boy wrestler has been found: _A. Z._, XXXI, 1874,
p. 57.
[223] X, 9.2-3; on Phaÿllos, see Foerster, 794 (undated).
[224] _H. N._, XXXIV, 59.
[225] _Ibid._, §57.
[226] On _Pyth._, IX, Argum., Boeckh, p. 401 B.
[227] XXIV, 7.10.
[228] To be discussed _infra_, in Ch. V.
[229] II, 1.7.
[230] _I. G. B._, nos. 120, 133, 148.
[231] _C. I. G._, II, 2888.
[232] P., VIII, 38.5; _cf._ Reisch, p. 39, n. 1.
[233] P., I, 23.9; _C. I. A._, I, 376; _I. G. B._, 39.
[234] P., I, 23.10.
[235] P., I, 24.3; _cf._ Reisch, p. 39.
[236] Pseudo-Plutarch, _Vit. X Orat._, already mentioned.
[237] P., I, 18.3 and IX, 32.8; _cf._ Pliny, _H. N._, XXXIV,
79.
[238] _Contra Leocr._, p. 51 (ed. Reiske, p. 176.)
[239] _Cf._ Furtwaengler, _A. M._, V, 1880, pp. 27 f.
[240] _C. I. A._, I, 419; he won in Ol. 77 (= 472 B. C.): _Oxy.
Pap._; Hyde, 50; Foerster, 208.
[241] _C. I. A._, II, 3, 1303.
[242] Aelian, _Var. Hist._, IX, 32. Reisch, p. 39, ascribes
these to the monument of the older Kimon, who won in chariot-racing
three times at Olympia: Hdt., VI, 103; Plut., _Cato Major_, 5;
Foerster, 124 and 132.
[243] _C. I. A._, II, 3, 1300.
[244] _Ibid._, 1301; _cf._ _C. I. G._, I, 233.
[245] _Ibid._, 1305, 1312.
[246] _Ibid._, 1302.
[247] _Ibid._, 1304.
[248] _Ibid._, 1323.
[249] _Ibid._, 1313.
[250] _Ibid._, 1314.
[251] _Ibid._, 1318-20.
[252] The Ἑλλανοδίκαι, mentioned by P., V, 9. 4 f. and
elsewhere; sometimes he calls them merely οἱ Ἠλεῖοι: _e. g._, VI, 13.9.
[253] _E. g._, P., VI, 13.9, says that the Eleans allowed
Pheidolas to dedicate a statue of his mare; in VI, 3.6, he says that
they allowed the wrestler Kratinos to set up a statue of his trainer.
[254] XXXIV, 16. See _infra_, pp. 54 and 354.
[255] VI, 1.1.
[256] _Inschr. v. Ol._, p. 236.
[257] _Bronz. v. Ol._, Textbd., pp. 19 f. (nude youths
with lost attributes so that they can not be named with certainty);
Tafelbd., Pl. VIII, 47 (the oldest); VII, 48 = F. W., 352 (Apollo,
following Overbeck, _Gr. Kunstmytk._, III, _Apollon_, p. 35, fig. 6);
VIII, 49 = F. W., 353; VIII, 51-4 and 57 (the latter is a boxer of the
fifth century B. C. = Fig. 2 in text); VI, 50; VI, 59 (right arm of a
fifth-century B. C. diskobolos); VI, 63 (right lower leg). Purgold,
_Annali_, LVII, 1885, pp. 167 f., makes these diskoboloi decorative in
character.
[258] De Ridder, no. 747.
[259] _Ibid._, no. 746.
[260] _Ibid._, no. 636.
[261] Carapanos, _Dodone et ses Ruines_, 1878, Pl. XI, 1 and 1
_bis_ (probably not Atalanta, as Carapanos suggests on p. 31, no. 4).
[262] _B. C. H._, XXI, 1897, Pls. X and XI.
[263] _A. M._, XV, 1890, p. 365.
[264] _Jb._, I, 1886, pp. 163 f., and Pl. IX; II, 1887, pp. 95
f.
[265] Carapanos, _op. cit._, Pl. XIII, 1.
[266] _E. g._, see E. von Sacken, _Die antiken Bronzen des k.
k. Muenz- und Antiken-Cabinetes in Wien_, 1871, Pl. 37, fig. 4, and Pl.
45, fig. 1; _cf._ _J. H. S._, I, Pl. V, fig. 1, text, pp. 176-7. See
lists, from which many of the above examples are taken, in Reisch, p.
39, and Rouse, pp. 172 f.
[267] The seven fragments collected by Treu, which are
two-fifths to two-thirds life-size: _Bildw. v. Ol._, Tafelbd., Pl. LVI,
2, (= Fig. 78, _infra_) and Textbd., p. 216, no. 241; Tafelbd., Pl.
LVI, 3, 4 and Textbd., p. 216, n. 4 and fig. 242.
[268] V, 27.2-3.
[269] Reisch, pp. 39 f., gives examples of these for chariot
victories at the _Panathenaia_ and the games at Oropos, which latter
were imitated from the _Panathenaia_.
[270] V, 16.3: καὶ δὴ ἀναθεῖναί σφισιν ἔστι γραψαμέναις
εἰκόνας. Rouse, p. 167, n. 9, shows that these words do not mean
“statues of themselves with their names engraved on them,” as Frazer
translates, but painted reliefs.
[271] Benndorf, _Griech. und Sicil. Vasenbilder_, I, Pl. IX,
pp. 13 f.
[272] I, 22.7. Reisch, p. 40, believes this represented a
Panathenaic victor.
[273] _H. N._, XXXV, 99. _Cf._ E. Kroker, _Gleichnamige
griechische Kuenstler_, 1883, p. 35.
[274] _Ibid._, §75.
[275] _Ibid._, §63.
[276] _Ibid._, §141.
[277] _Ibid._, §106.
[278] _Ibid._, §71.
[279] _Ibid._, §130.
[280] _Ibid._, §144.
[281] P., VI, 14.13. He won the pentathlon twice some time
between Ols. 126 and 132 (= 276 and 252 B. C.): Hyde, 139; Foerster,
451 and 456; the inscription on one has been recovered: _Inschr. v.
Ol._, 176.
[282] P., VI, 3.11. His victories in running races occurred
in Ols. (?) 95, (?) 97 and 99; (= 400, 392 and 384 B. C.): Afr.; Hyde,
33; Foerster, 307, 315, 316. The inscription from the base of one is
preserved in _A. G._, XIII, 15.
[283] P., VI, 2.1-2; Hyde, 12; Foerster, 211a.
[284] P., VI, 15.10; he won the pankration and wrestling match
in Ol. 142 (= 212 B. C.): Hyde, 150; Foerster, 474, 475.
[285] P., VI, 1.4; he won in the two- and four-horse
chariot-races in Ols. 102, 103 (= 372 and 368 B. C.): Hyde, 6;
Foerster, 338, 345; for the inscription on its base, see _Inschr. v.
Ol._, 166. P. Gardner, in _J. H. S._, XXV, 1905, p. 245, infers that he
had only one victory, in 372 B. C.
[286] P., VI, 2.2; he won in Ols. (?) 86, 87 (= 436, 432 B.
C.): Hyde, 13; Foerster, 250, 256.
[287] P., VI, 14.12; _Inschr. v . Ol._, 170; _ibid._, no. 154
belongs to the victory mentioned by Pausanias. He won κέλητι in Ol. (?)
83 (= 448 B. C.): Hyde, 133; Foerster, 327.
[288] _E. g._, Deinomenes set up a chariot-group to his
father Hiero: P., VI, 12.1; Glaukos had a statue dedicated by his son:
VI, 10.3; Menedemos set up a statue to his father of the same name:
_Inschr. v. Ol._, 214; the sons of Hiero II, the son of Hierokles, of
Syracuse, set up in honor of their father two statues by the Syracusan
statuary Mikon, one on horseback, the other on foot: P., VI, 12.2 f.;
Hyde 105a and pp. 44-5; another of the same Hiero was set up at Olympia
by his sons: VI, 15.6; Hyde, 147a; these latter, however, are “honor”
and not victor statues.
[289] _E. g._, Hermokrates dedicated a statue to his son
Kleitomachos of Thebes: P., VI, 15.3 f.; he won in pankration and
boxing in Ols. 141 and 142 (= 216, 212 B. C.): Hyde, 146; Foerster,
472, 476. The epigram by Alkaios (= Minor) of Messenia is preserved
in _A. G._, IX, 588. For inscriptions after the time of Augustus, see
_Inschr. v. Ol._, 215 (Menedemos to his son of the same name); 216
(Aristodemos to his son Lykomedes of Elis); Foerster, 550; _Inschr. v.
Ol._, 218 (Timolas to his son Archiadas of Elis); Foerster, 535; etc.
[290] _E. g._, Klaudia Kleodike to her son M. Antonios
Kallipos Peisanos of Elis: _Inschr. v. Ol._, 223; Foerster, 568.
[291] _E. g._, Diodoros to his brother Nikanor of Ephesos:
_Inschr. v. Ol._, 227; he won the pankration in Ol. 217 (= 89 A. D.):
Foerster, 666.
[292] _E. g._, Loukios Betilenos (= Vetulenus) set one up
to T. Klaudios Aphrodeisios of Elis (?): _Inschr. v. Ol._, 226. He
won κέλητι in Ol. 208 (= 53 A. D.): Foerster, 634; two Eleans set up
statues, one, M. Antonios Peisanos, to Germanicus Caesar, adopted son
of the Emperor Tiberius (Foerster, 612), the other, Gnaios Markios, to
Tiberius or Germanicus: _Inschr. v. Ol._, 221 and 222.
[293] _E. g._, Mikon the trainer to an unknown Samian boxer:
P., VI, 2.9; Hyde, 19 and pp. 29-30; Foerster, 804.
[294] P., VI, 3.8; _cf._ VII, 17.6 and 13 f.; Afr.; Hyde, 29;
Foerster, 6.
[295] P., VI, 6.2; he won some time between Ols. (?) 93 and
103 (= 408 and 368 B. C.): Hyde, 53; Foerster, 355.
[296] P., VI, 17.2; he won some time between Ols. (?) 114 and
132 (= 324 and 252 B. C.): Hyde, 172; Foerster, 354.
[297] P., VI, 17.2; two of the victories in the stade-race
fell in Ols. 129 and 130 (= 264 and 260 B. C.): Afr.; Hyde, 173;
Foerster, 440-2; 444-5.
[298] P., VI, 17.4. He won the boys’ wrestling match some
time between Ols. (?) 115 and 118 (= 320 and 308 B. C.): Hyde, 178;
Foerster, 377.
[299] For the one at Olympia, see P., VI, 8.5; for the one at
Pellene, _id._, VII, 27.5; he won in Ol. 94 (= 396 B. C.): Hyde, 81;
Foerster, 286. Similarly, Hiero II, King of Syracuse, had two statues
_honoris causa_ at Olympia set up by his fellow citizens: P., VI, 15.
6; Hyde, 147a.
[300] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 169; _cf._ P., VI, 13.11; he won the
pankration some time between Ols. (?) 115 and 130 (= 320 and 260 B.
C.): Hyde, 123; Foerster, 758 (undated).
[301] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 186; _cf._ P., VI, 15.6; he won twice
in boxing between Ols. (?) 144 and 147 (= 204 and 192 B. C.): Hyde,
147; Foerster, 510 and 512.
[302] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 224; he won the boys’ wrestling match
in Roman days; Foerster, 823.
[303] P., VI, 2.2-3; Thukydides, V, 49-50; he won in Ol. 90 (=
420 B. C.): Hyde, 14; Foerster, 270.
[304] Vol. II, p. 222.
[305] So Scherer, p. 5. His evidence is from inscriptions of
imperial days (_e. g._, _Inschr. v. Ol._, 218, 223, 227), when the
dedicatory formula differed somewhat from that of earlier times.
[306] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 147-8; _cf._ P., VI, 10.9; _Oxy.
Pap._; Hyde, 102; Foerster, 237.
[307] VI, 3.6. He won sometime between Ols. (?) 120 and 130 (=
300 and 260 B. C.): Hyde, 27; Foerster, 433.
[308] VI, 8.3. He won the stade-race and the chariot-race in
Ols. 93 and 104 (= 408 and 364 B. C.) respectively: Afr.; Hyde, 75;
Foerster, 277, 350.
[309] P., VI, 14.6; he won in wrestling matches six times in
Ol. (?) 61, and in Ols. 62, 63, 64, 65, 66 (= 536-516 B. C.): Hyde,
128; Foerster, 116, 122, 126, 131, 136, 141.
[310] P., VI, 13.2; Afr.; Hyde, 111 and p. 48; Foerster, 39,
41-6.
[311] P., VI, 4.6; Hyde, 41 and _cf._ p. 36; Foerster, 384,
392.
[312] P., VI, 5.1.; VII, 27.6; Afr.; Hyde, 47; Foerster, 279.
[313] P., VI, 10.1; Hyde, 93 and p. 42; Foerster, 137.
[314] The age of boy victors at Olympia seems to have been
17-20: see _Inschr. v. Ol._, 56, ll. 11] f. (referring to the order of
the _Augustalia_, or Σεβαστὰ ἰσολύμπια, celebrated in Naples, which
were modeled after those of Olympia, _cf._ _C. I. G._, III, 5805).
Archippos of Mytilene won the crown for boxing at Olympia, Delphi,
Nemea, and on the Isthmus among the men at not over twenty years of
age: P., VI, 15.1; _Inschr. v. Ol._, 173; he won sometime between
Ols. (?) 115 and 125 (= 320 and 280 B. C.): Hyde, 140; Foerster, 757
(undated). Since Pausanias mentions this as a remarkable record, we
should suspect his statement that the boy runner Damiskos of Messene
was but twelve when he won the stade-race: VI, 2.10; he won Ol. 103 (=
368 B. C.): Afr.; Hyde, 20; Foerster, 343. Another victor, of unknown
date, Nikasylos of Rhodes, was disqualified when eighteen years old
from entering the boys’ wrestling match because of his age, and so
entered that of the men: P., VI, 14.1-2; Hyde, 125; Foerster, 787. He
died at twenty. Such inconsistencies in Pausanias’ account show that
the Hellanodikai exercised some discretion in their judgment, taking
into consideration not merely age, but size and strength.
[315] On maintenance at the Prytaneion, see Plato, _de Rep._,
V, 465 D; _Apology_, 36 D; Plut., _Aristeides_, 27; Athenæus, VI, 32
(p. 237, quoting Timokles), and X, 6 (p. 414, quoting Xenophanes);
R. Schoell, Die Speisung im Prytaneion zu Athen, _Hermes_, VI, 1872,
pp. 14 f. (and Athenian inscription, pp. 30 f.) He concludes that
this honor was given to Athenian victors only in the chariot-race
at Olympia, and in gymnic contests at the other great games. Solon
ordained that these meals be frugal, consisting of a barley loaf on
common days and a wheaten one on festival days: see Athenæus, IV, 14
(p. 137 e).
[316] _C. I. A._, II, 2, 965.
[317] Dio Cassius, LII, 30, 5-6.
[318] Suet., _Octav._, 45; _cf._ Gardiner, pp. 174-5.
[319] P., VI, 13.1; Afr.; Hyde, 110; Foerster, 176-7, 181-2,
187-8.
[320] P., VI, 18.6; Hyde, 186; Foerster, 317, 323.
[321] P., VI, 3.11; Afr.; Hyde, 33; Foerster, 307, 315, 316.
[322] P., VI, 2.6-7; Hyde, 16; Foerster, 309.
[323] P., VI, 2.2-3; Thukyd., V, 49-50; Krause, _Olympia_, p.
144.
[324] P., V, 21.3-4. Eupolos won in Ol. 98 (= 388 B. C.):
Foerster, 313. See Plans A and B.
[325] P., V, 21.5; Kallipos won Ol. 112 (= 332 B. C.):
Foerster, 385.
[326] P., V, 21.8 f.; on Straton, see Foerster, 570-1.
[327] P., V, 21.16-17; see Foerster, 598 (for the Elean boy
wrestler Polyktor, son of Damonikos); P., V, 21.15; Foerster 684 (for
the boxer Didas and his antagonist Sarapammon, both Egyptians). On
cases of bribery at Olympia, see Gardiner, pp. 134-5 and 174; Krause,
_Olympia_, pp. 144 f.
[328] P., V, 21.18.
[329] P., V, 21.12-14.
[330] Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum_,^2 II,
689; Cavvadias (Kabbadias), _Fouilles d’Épidaure_, I, 1891, p. 77, no.
238.
[331] Ph., 45. He says that victories were bought and sold
in his day and that the practice was encouraged by trainers. _Cf._
Gardiner, p. 219.
[332] Lucian, _Nero_, 9. _Cf._ Gardiner, pp. 218-219
[333] See Gardiner, p. 77.
[334] Diod., XIII, 82; Foerster, 271 and 276. Suetonius says
that Nero, on arriving in Naples after his tour of Greece, made his
entrance in a chariot drawn by white horses through a breach in the
city wall “according to the practice of victors at the Greek games,”
and that he entered Rome in the triumphal chariot of Augustus dressed
in a purple tunic and a gold-embroidered cloak through a breach in
the wall of the Circus Maximus: _Nero_, 25. Though Plutarch says that
victors could tear down part of the city walls (_Quaest. conviv._, II,
5.2), such extravagances seem to have been introduced late and not to
have belonged to the great days of Greek athletics.
[335] _Cf._ Waldstein, _J. H. S._, I, 1880, pp. 198-9.
[336] Hdt., V, 47; _cf._ Eustath. on Hom., Iliad, III, p. 383,
43; Foerster, 138.
[337] P., VI, 6.4 f.; Afr.; Hyde, 56; Foerster, 185, 195, 207.
[338] P., VI, 6.7-11; Strabo, VI, 1.5 (C. 255); Ael., _Var.
Hist._, VIII, 18.
[339] So Kallimachos _apud_ Plin., _H. N._, VII, 152 (= _S.
Q._, 494); he also states that two of his statues, one at Lokroi, the
other at Olympia, were struck by lightning on the same day.
[340] P., VI, 11.8-9; _Oxy. Pap._; Hyde, 104; Foerster, 191,
196.
[341] P., VI, 11.2.
[342] P., VI, 9.8; _cf._ Suidas, _s. v._ Κλεομήδης; Foerster,
162; _cf._ Hyde, 90a (though there was no statue at Olympia).
[343] VI, 9.6-8.
[344] Thus P., VI, 11.9, says that statues of Theagenes were
erected within and beyond Greece and could heal sickness. Lucian
says that in his day the statues of both Theagenes on Thasos and of
Polydamas of Skotoussa at Olympia cured fevers: _Deorum Concilium_, 12.
Polydamas won the pankration in Ol. 93 (= 408 B. C.): Afr.; his statue
by Lysippos was set up later: P., VI, 5.1; Hyde, 47; Foerster, 279.
Gardiner has recently called attention to the fact that the evidence
for the canonization of the five victors mentioned is mostly late, and
he therefore doubts if it had anything to do with their victories at
Olympia: _B. S. A._, XXII, 1916-18, pp. 96, 97.
[345] Ll. 1161 f.
[346] _De Rep._, V, 465 D. E.
[347] _De Rep._, 620 B.; _cf._ Gardiner, pp. 129-130.
[348] Xen., _Hell._, I, 5.19; P., VI, 7.4 f.; Hyde, 61;
Foerster, 258, 260, 262.
[349] Damagetos won in boxing (?) in Ol. 56 (= 556 B. C):
Hermipp., _fr._ 14 (= _F. H. G._ III, p. 39); _A. G._, VII, 88; Pl.,
_H. N._, VII, 119; Foerster, 108.
[350] _Hbk._, pp. 215-216.
[351] _Ap._ Athenæum, X, 6 (pp. 413-14); Gardiner, p. 79, has
given a translation of his protest.
[352] _Ap._ Athen., X, 5 (p. 413).
[353] _De Rep._, 404 A.; 410 D. (_cf._ 535 D.).
[354] Προτρεπτικὸς λόγος ἐπὶ τὰς τέχνας. For translation, see
Gardiner, p. 188.
[355] See Secchi, _Mosaico Antoniniano_, and Baum., I, p. 223,
fig. 174.
[356] VI, 1.1: ποιήσασθαι καὶ ἵππων ἀγωνιστῶν μνήμην καὶ
ἀνδρῶν ἀθλητῶν.
[357] See Dittenberger, _Inschr. v. Ol._, p. 239.
[358] Pp. 272-3.
[359] P., VI, 10.8; Hyde, 99 b and p. 44; Foerster, 77-9.
[360] _Inschr. v. 0l._, 236; Foerster, 686. It was the custom
also at Delphi to dedicate chariots; thus we have already mentioned
that Arkesilas IV of Kyrene dedicated his chariot there after a
Pythian victory in Ol. 78.3 (= 462 B. C.): Pindar, _Pyth._, V, 34
f. An inscription tells us of a bronze wheel being dedicated to the
Dioskouroi: _I. G. A._, p. 173, 43a.
[361] _E. g._, _Inschr. v. Ol._, 142 (Pantares); 160
(Kyniska).
[362] _E. g._, _ibid._, 143 (Gelo); 178 (Glaukon); 190 (son of
Aristotle); 191 (Agilochos); 194 (son of Nikodromos); 197 (Antigenes);
217 (Lykomedes); 222 (Gnaios Markios); 233 (Kasia Mnasithea).
[363] Thus _ibid._, 142, 143, 236.
[364] _Ibid._, 178, 190 (supplied), 191 (supplied), 194, 197,
217, 227, 233 (supplied).
[365] _Ibid._, 160.
[366] _Ibid._, 177.
[367] V, 21.1.
[368] V, 25.1.
[369] _A. M._, V, 1880, p. 29.
[370] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 144; here in the renewed inscription
occurs also the word ἀνέθηκεν; Hyde, 56; Foerster, 185, 195, 207.
[371] _L. c._, p. 31, n. 1; here he gives a list of the
metrical exceptions of the fifth century B. C.; from inscriptions,
that of Aineas, _A. Z._, XXXV, 1877, p. 38, no. 86; Foerster, 244 (an
inscription not appearing in _Inschr. v. Ol._), and Tellon, _A. Z._,
_ibid._, p. 190, no. 91, and XXXVIII, 1880, p. 70 (= _Inschr. v. Ol._,
147-8); from Pausanias, that of Kleosthenes (wrongly Kleisthenes), VI,
10.6, and Damarchos, VI, 8.2. The list should he corrected as follows.
From inscriptions: Tellon, boy boxer of Ol. 77 (= 472 B. C.): _Oxy.
Pap._; P., VI, 10.9; _Inschr. v. Ol._, 147-8; Hyde, 102; Foerster, 237;
Kyniskos, boy boxer of Ol. (?) 80 (= 460 B. C.): P., VI, 4.11; _Inschr.
v. Ol._, 149; Hyde, 45; Foerster, 255; Charmides, boy boxer of Ol.
(?) 79 (= 464 B. C.): P., VI, 7.1; _Inschr. v. Ol._, 156 (renewed);
Hyde, 58; Foerster, 763 (undated); ...krates, boy runner, Ol. (?) 93
(= 408 B. C.): _Inschr. v. Ol._, 157; Foerster, 280. From Pausanias:
Damarchos, boxer, who won before Ol. 75 (= 480 B. C.) or after Ol. 83
(= 448 B. C.): VI, 8.2; Hyde, 74 and p. 38; Foerster, 452.
[372] _E. g._, the Cretan Philonides, courier of Alexander the
Great, dedicated his portrait statue to the god: _Inschr. v. Ol._, 276;
P., VI, 16.5; Hyde, 154 a.
[373] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 144.
[374] So Dittenberger, and Furtwaengler (_l. c._, p. 30,
n. 2), following Roehl, _I. G. A._, on no. 388; Roehl believed that
originally the word Lokroi or the name of the victor’s father appeared
as the dedicator, and later, because the victor wished to remove the
expense from his city or because his father died, Euthymos himself
restored it; see discussion of Dittenberger, _Inschr. v. Ol._, pp.
249-520. The original inscription has ἔστησε.
[375] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 264; Roehl, _I. G. A._, 589.
[376] So Dittenberger, _Inschr. v. Ol._, p. 241, and no. 213;
_I. G. B._, 72; Foerster, following the earlier dating of Dittenberger
(_A. Z._, XXXV, 1877, p. 42, nos. 49-50), dates the two victories
later, in Ols. (?) 200, 203 (= 21 and 33 A. D.); nos. 614 and 619.
[377] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 225, 228, 229-30, 231, 232.
[378] _Op. cit._, pp. 240-1.
[379] Furtwaengler, _l. c._, p. 30; Reisch, p. 37; Rouse, p.
167; Frazer, III, p. 624. Against the view that victor statues were
first called votive in Roman days, see Purgold, _A. Z._, XXXIX, 1881,
p. 89, on no. 390 (= inscription of Glaukon = _Inschr. v. Ol._, 178;
however, he was a victor in chariot-racing).
[380] _E. g._, by Scherer, p. 5; Kuhnert, _Jahrb. fuer cl.
Phil._, Supplbd., XIV, 1885, p. 257, n. 7; Flasch, in Baum., II, p.
1096; _cf._ Dittenberger-Purgold, _Inschr. v. Ol._, p. 240; Frazer, III,
pp. 623-4.
[381] _E. g._, Ziemann, _de Anathematis Graecis_, 1885, p. 54.
[382] _Hermes_, XIII, 1878, p. 437, n. 2.
[383] Pp. 35 f.; followed by M. K. Welsh, _B. S. A._, XI,
1904-5, pp. 33-4.
[384] _E. g._, Pythokles, who won the pentathlon in Ol. 82 (=
452 B. C.), does not mention his contest on the base (_Inschr. v. Ol._,
162-3), nor does Pausanias give it (VI, 7.10); we learn it only from
the _Oxy. Pap._: see Robert _O. S._, p. 185; Hyde, 70; Foerster, 295.
[385] On p. 36, n. 1, he points out that at Athens the usual
dedication formula was omitted; _e. g._, in the inscription of the
Isthmian victor Diophanes, _C. I. A._, II, 3, 1301, and in that of
a Panathenaic victor, _ibid._, 1302. The presence of the word in an
Athenian inscription referring to the Olympic victor Kallias rests on
an uncertain restoration; _ibid._, I, 419; he won Ol. 77 (= 472 B. C.):
P., VI, 6.1; Hyde, 50; Foerster, 208.
[386] Pp. 167 f.
[387] Both Reisch, p. 36, and Dittenberger, _op. cit._, p.
240, agree also in opposing Furtwaengler’s _Versnoth_ explanation.
[388] Thus Pausanias mentions the “chariot, horses, charioteer and
Kyniska herself”: VI, 1.6. Again he speaks of the “chariot and statue
of Gelo”: VI, 9.4-5; in referring to the chariot of Kleosthenes by
Hagelaïdas he says: “Along with the statue of the chariot and horses,
he [Kleosthenes] dedicated statues of himself and the charioteer,” and
even adds the names of the horses: VI, 10.6. In VI, 18.1, he mentions
the group of Kratisthenes as “the chariot, Nike mounting it, and
Kratisthenes”; in VI, 16.6 he speaks of “a small chariot and figure
of the father of Polypeithes, the wrestler Kalliteles”; etc. _Cf._
Dittenberger, _op. cit._, pp. 239-40.
[389] He won in Ol. 255 (= 241 A. D.): Foerster, 739: _Inschr. v. Ol._, 241.
[390] No dedication, however, is inscribed on it: _I. G. A._, 160;
_Bronz. v. Ol._, on no. 1101, p. 180.
[391] Chionis, a famous runner from Sparta, had a tablet, which listed
his victories, set up beside his statue at Olympia: P., VI, 13.2; he
won in Ols. 28-31 (= 668-656 B. C.): Hyde, 111; Foerster, 39, 41-46.
His statue was erected long after his death, in Ol. 77 or 78, and
so probably the stele also: Hyde, p. 48. Deinosthenes, who won the
stade-race in Ol. 116 (= 316 B. C.), had a slab set up beside his
statue at Olympia, on which was inscribed the distance between it and a
similar one in Sparta: P., VI, 16.8; Afr.; Hyde, 163; Foerster, 403.
[392] He won the chariot-race in Ol. 33 (= 648 B. C.): Foerster, 51.
[393] P., VI, 19.2; on the mistake of Pausanias, see Flasch, in Baum.,
II, p. 1104 B.
[394] _Or._, XXXI, 596 R (= 328 M).
[395] _H. N._, XXXIV, 17.
[396] _H. N._, XXXIV, 23-4. The subject of portrait honorary statues
at Athens has been treated by L. B. Stenessen, _de Historia variisque
Generibus statuarum iconicarum apud Athenienses_, Christiania, 1877;
for all Greece by M. K. Welsh, Honorary Statues in Ancient Greece, _B.
S. A._, XI, 1904-5, pp. 32-49.
[397] See list in Hyde, _Index_ on p. V.
[398] King Hiero of Syracuse had five: Hyde, 147 a (= three) and 105a
(= two); Antigonos Monophthalmos had three: Hyde, 103 d, 147 f, 151 b.
[399] Archidamas III, son of Agesilaos: P., VI, 4.9; Hyde, 42 a; VI,
15.7; Hyde, 147 c; Areus, son of Akrotatos, P., VI, 12.5; Hyde, 105 b;
VI, 15.9; Hyde, 148 a: _Inschr. v. Ol._, 308.
[400] Demetrios Poliorketes, P., VI, 15.7; Hyde, 147 e; _Inschr. v.
Ol._, 304; VI, 16.3; Hyde, 152 b.
[401] Pyrrhos: P., VI, 14.9; Hyde, 128 a.
[402] Hiero II: P., VI, 12.2 f. (two statues set up by his sons:
Hyde, 105 a); VI, 15.6 (three statues, one set up by sons, two by
fellow-citizens: Hyde, 147 a).
[403] Philip II, son of Amyntas; Alexander the Great; Seleukos Nikator,
son of Antiochos; Antigonos, son of Philip, surnamed Monophthalmos;
these four princes had statues together: P., VI, 11.1; Hyde, 103 a, b,
c, d. Antigonos had also other statues in different parts of the Altis:
P., VI, 15.7; Hyde, 147 f; _Inschr. v. Ol._, 305; VI, 16.2; Hyde, 151
b. Antigonos Doson and Philip III had statues together: P., VI, 16.3;
Hyde, 152 a. The Syrian king Seleukos Nikator had another statue at
Olympia: P., VI, 16.2; Hyde, 151 c. Three of the Egyptian dynasty had
statues: Ptolemy Lagi, P., VI, 15.10; Hyde, 149 a; Philadelphus, P.,
VI, 17.3; Hyde, 173 a; and another whose name is uncertain, P., VI,
16.9; Hyde, 166 a.
[404] P., VI, 4.8; Hyde, 41 b.
[405] P., VI, 17.7; Hyde, 184 a; _Inschr. v. Ol._, 293.
[406] P., VI, 15.7; Hyde, 147 d.
[407] P., VI, 14.9-10; Hyde, 128 b.
[408] P., VI, 14.11 Hyde, 128 c in Ol. (?) 127 (= 272 B. C.)
[409] P., VI, 14.12; Hyde, 134 a; erected between Ols. (?) 103 and 115
(= 368 and 320 B. C.).
[410] P., VI, 16.5; _Inschr. v. Ol._, 276, 277; Hyde, 154 a.
[411] P., VI, 14.9-10.
[412] P., VI, 15.7; Hyde, 147 b.
[413] P., VI, 15.2; Hyde, 143 a.
[414] VI, 12.5. The date of his victory is unknown, but fell probably
in Ol. 134 or 135 (= 244 or 240 B. C.): Hyde, 105 c and pp. 44-5;
Foerster, 463.
[415] He won some time between Ols. (?) 99 and 102 (= 384 and 372 B.
C.): P., VI, 3.2-3; Hyde, 23 and pp. 30-1; Foerster, 335.
[416] On the ancient custom of carrying off votive offerings and images
from vanquished foes, see P., VIII, 46.2-4. He shows that Augustus
only followed a long-established precedent. Pliny, _H. N._, XXXIV,
36, in speaking of the great number of statues plundered from Greece
by Mummius and the Luculli, quotes G. Licinius Mucianus (three times
consul), who died before 77 B. C., to the effect that 73,000 statues
were still to be seen at Rhodes in his time, and that supposably as
many more were yet to be found in Athens, Olympia, and Delphi.
[417] At the beginning of his description of Elis (V, 1.2), Pausanias
says that 217 years had passed since the restoration of Corinth. As
that event fell in 44 B. C., he was writing his fifth book in 174 A.
D., _i. e._, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius. With this date other
chronological references in his work agree. That the fifth book was
written before the sixth is deduced from a comparison of V, 14.6
with VI, 22.8 f. Though the sixth book, therefore, can not have been
composed earlier than 174 A. D., it may, of course, have been written
much later. On the dates of the various books, see Frazer, I, pp. xv
f. On the great importance of Pausanias for the whole history of Greek
art, see C. Robert, _Pausanias als Schriftsteller_, 1909, p. 1.
[418] _Historia naturalis_, Bks. XXXIV-XXXVI (ed. Jex-Blake).
[419] This process has never been carried further nor with greater
insight than in Furtwaengler’s great work, _Meisterwerke der griech.
Plastik_, 1893.
[420] In his _Handbuch der Archaeologie der Kunst_, 3d ed., 1848, by F.
G. Welcker, p. 740.
[421] Chapter VII, _infra_, pp. 321 f.
[422] _Cf._ Furtwaengler-Urlichs, _Denkmaeler griech. und roem.
Skulptur_ (Handausgabe^3), 1911, p. 101.
[423] _Pro. Imag._, 11, pp. 490 f.: Ἀκούω ... μήδ’ Ὀλυμπίασιν ἐξεῖναι
τοῖς νικῶσι μείζους τῶν σωμάτων ἀνεστάναι τοὺς ἀνδριάντας, κ. τ. λ.;
Scherer, pp. 10 f.; _Bildw. v. Ol._, Textbd., p. 250.
[424] VI, 5.1. On the statue, see E. Preuner, _Ein delphisches
Weihgeschenck_, p. 26; for the recovered sculptured base, see _Bildw.
v. Ol._, Textbd., pp. 209 f.; Tafelbd., Pl. LV. 1-3. Polydamas won the
pankration in Ol. 93 (= 408 B. C.), but his statue was set up long
after, in the time of Lysippos: Afr.; Hyde, 47; Foerster, 279.
[425] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 146; _cf._ Scherer, pp. 10-11. He won in Ol. 77
(= 472 B. C.): P., VI, 6.1; _Oxy. Pap._; Hyde, 50; Foerster, 208.
[426] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 159 (renewed); _I. G. B._, 86. Eukles won in
Ols. (?) 90-93, (= 420-408 B. C.): P., VI, 6.2; Hyde, 52; Foerster, 297.
[427] The lost work of Aristotle is mentioned by Diogenes Laertios, V,
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