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80. The statue is 1.83 meters high (Bulle). Head alone in Overbeck,
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II, p. 446, and _cf._ 456, n. 4; Arndt-Amelung, nos. 270-271. A fine
herma-replica of the head is at Broadlands, England: Michaelis, p. 219,
no. 9; Furtwaengler, _Mp._, p. 58, fig. 13 (three views). A poorer copy
is in the Uffizi, Florence: Duetschke, III, no. 13; Arndt-Amelung,
_Einzelaufnahmen_, 83-84.
[706] Graef, _Aus der Anomia_, 1890, p. 69. Bulle finds the head
similar to that of the _Lemnian Athena_ and the body to that of
the _Farnese Anadoumenos_ of the British Museum (= Bulle, no. 49).
Furtwaengler thinks that its relation to the _Lemnia_ is not close
enough to warrant us in assigning it to Pheidias: _Mp._, p. 57; _Mw._,
pp. 86 and 742. On the basis of a Phokaian coin (Berlin example, _Mp._,
Pl. VI, 19; copy in British Museum, _B. M. Coins_, Ionia, IV, 23),
which represents a similar Hermes, he ascribes the statue to an Ionian
artist and conjectures Telephanes mentioned by Pliny, _H. N._, XXXIV,
68.
[707] Helbig finds the head Myronian, but the body unconnected with any
of the well-known artistic tendencies of his day.
[708] As shown in the _Germanicus_ copy; the right arm is wrongly
restored in the Ludovisi statue. In the _Germanicus_ the arm is bowed
more at the elbow, the hand reaching the level of the temples.
[709] Froehner, pp. 213 f., no. 184 (and bibliography); F. W., 1630;
Rayet, II, Pls. 69 (statue), 70 (head); etc.
[710] _A. J. A._, XV, 1911, Pl. VI and pp. 215-16 (Caskey); _Jb._,
XXIV, 1909, Pls. I and II (from Munich cast), pp. 1 f. (Sieveking).
For the _Hermes_ of the Boboli gardens, see _ibid._, figs. 1 and 3,
pp. 2 and 4; Arndt-Amelung., _Einzelauf._, 103-105; Duetschke, II, no.
84; Furtw., _Mp._, p. 230, _Mw._, p. 424. Another replica is in the
Hermitage: Kieseritzky, _Kat._, no. 179; Sieveking, figs. 4-5, p. 5;
_Mp._, p. 290, _Mw._, 506; another in the Torlonia Museum in Rome, no.
[475] Sieveking, fig. 6, p. 5.
[711] _Gaz. d. B.-A._, 1911, p. 251.
[712] Furtwaengler, _Mp._, p. 230 and _cf._ p. 290; _Mw._, p. 424 and
_cf._ p. 506.
[713] See the _Annual Report of the Museum of Fine Arts_, 1898, p. 20.
Mahler, _Polyklet u. seine Schule_, p. 27, no. 34, wrongly thought that
it was a replica of the _Doryphoros_.
[714] Froehner, no. 183, pp. 210 f. (bibliography on pp. 212-13; later
bibliogr. in Klein, _Praxitel. Stud._, 1899, p. 4, n. 2); B. B., no.
67; von Mach, 238 b; Clarac, Pl. 309, no. 2046. Replica in Munich (with
a head of Apollo not belonging to the torso): Furtw.-Wolters, _Beschr.
d. Glypt._^2, 1910, 287 (with list of replicas); von Mach, 238a;
Clarac, V, 814, 2048; Reinach, _Rép._, I, 487, 7; Klein, pp. 4 f.; one
in London, in Lansdowne House: Michaelis, pp. 464f., no. 85 and Pl.
opp. p. 464; Clarac, V, 814, 2048 A; Reinach, _Rép._, I, 487, 6; one
in the Vatican: Reinach, _Rép._, I, 487, 5; head and torso in Athens:
_ibid._, II, i, 153, 10; _A. M._, XI, 1886, Pl. IX (middle), pp. 362 f.
(Studniczka); head in Copenhagen, formerly in the Borghese Coll., Rome:
P. Arndt, _Glypt. Ny-Carlsberg_, 1912, Pls. 128, 129, and text pp. 177
f., (fig. 95 = bronze restoration for the municipal Museum in Stettin,
combining the Lansdowne body and the Fagan head in the British Museum;
for the Fagan head see _B. M. Sculpt._, III, 1785).
[715] See von Mach, 170; R. Kekulé, _Die Reliefs an der Balustrade der
Athena Nike_, with Pls. 1-6.
[716] From the _Ekphrasis_ of Christodoros, _A. G._, II, _vv._ 297-302.
It was first shown to be a statue of Hermes by Lambeck, _de Mercurii
statua_, Thorn, 1860.
[717] Pick, _Die antiken Muenzen Nordgriechenlands_, I, Pl. XVI, 25;
_cf._ Froehner, p. 211.
[718] Duetschke, IV, no. 151; _J. H. S._, XXVI, 1906, Pl. XVI, pp. 239
f. (Wace).
[719] _E. g._, _B. M. Bronzes_, nos. 1200, 1202, 1207; for a herm in
the Braccio Nuovo of the Vatican, after a fourth-century B. C. type,
see Amelung, _Vat._, I, p. 84, no. 65 and Pl. X.
[720] _B. M. Sculpt._, III, no. 1600 and Pi. III; _Jb._, I, 1886, p.
54, and Pl. 5, and fig. 1 (Wolters); Kalkmann, Proport. d. Gesichts,
pp. 41 and 98; Furtw., _Mp._, Pl. XVIII. opp. p. 346; for a full
discussion of this head, see the note by translator in _Mp._, pp.
346-7. The head is 11-1/2 inches high (_B. M. Sculpt._).
[721] Nissen, _Pompej. Stud._, p. 166.
[722] _H. N._, XXXIV, 18.
[723] _E. g._, one in Paris, in the Cab. des Médailles, no. 3350;
Clarac, 666 D, 1512 F.
[724] _E. g._, E. von Sacken, _Die ant. Bronzen des k. k. Muenz-und
Antiken-Cabinetes in Wien_, 1871, Pl. 10, 4; a bronze _Mercury_ in
Paris, in the Cab. des Méd., Coll. Oppermann (0.20 m. tall): Furtw.,
_Mp._, p. 233, fig. 94, and _Mw._, p. 428, fig. 64; bronze statuette
of Mercury in the British Museum with chlamys over the left shoulder:
_Mp._, p. 232, fig. 93; _Mw._, p. 427, fig. 63.
[725] _Mp._, p. 231, n. 3.
[726] _B. M. Bronzes_, no. 1217.
[727] _Mp._, pp. 288 f.; _Mw._, pp. 502 f.
[728] _Inschr. v. Ol._, no. 165 (renewed); base pictured, _Mp._, p.
288, fig. 123; _Mw._, p. 503; fig. 90. Furtwaengler had ascribed the
statue of Aristion to the younger Polykleitos; this was disproved by
the date of Aristion’s victory, Ol. 82 (= 452 B. C.), given by the
_Oxy. Pap._
[729] Michaelis, p. 446, no. 35; Clarac, V, 946, 2436 A; Furtw., _Mp._,
p. 289, fig. 124; _Mw._, p. 504, fig. 91.
[730] XXIII, 660; _cf._ Od., XIX, 86: “By Apollo’s grace he hath so
goodly a son”—meaning that Apollo gave increase of physical strength to
men, just as Artemis did to women. _Cf._ Hesiod, _Theog._, 346-7.
[731] V, 7.10.
[732] _Quaest. conviv._, VIII, 4 (= p. 724 C, D.); here he also
mentions a Gymnasion of Apollo at Athens.
[733] Told by many writers: _e. g._, Apollod., II, 6.2.
[734] P., X, 13.7, describes a group at Delphi representing Apollo and
Hermes grasping the tripod before the fight; in VIII, 37.1 he mentions
the same subject on a marble relief at Lykosoura, and in III, 21.8
says that Gythion was founded by the two after the contest, and that
their images stood in the agora there. The subject was represented in
the gable of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi: Frazer, V, p. 274 (in
connection with P., X, 11.2). Stephani enumerated 89 existing works of
art which represent this subject, of which 58 appear on black-figured,
18 on red-figured vases, 8 on marble reliefs, 3 on terra-cottas, and 2
on gems: _Comptes rendus de la comm. impér. archéol._, St. Petersburg,
1868, pp. 31 f.; Overbeck has added to the list: _Griech. Mythol._,
III, Apollon, 1889, pp. 391-415.
[735] The _Choiseul-Gouffier_ statue: _B. M. Sculpt._, I, no. 209;
_Marbles and Bronzes_, Pl. III; _Specimens_, II, Pl. V; _Museum
Marbles_, XI, Pl. 32; F. W., no. 221; _J. H. S._, I, 1881, Pl. IV, and
pp. 178 f., and _cf._, II, 1882, pp. 332 f. (Waldstein); von Mach,
Pl. 67; Collignon, I, p. 403, fig. 208; Clarac, III, 482, 931 H, and
p. 213: Reinach, _Rép._, II, 1, 85, 10; Conze, _Beitr. zur Gesch. d.
gr. Pl._^2, 1869, Pl. VI; Springer-Michaelis, p. 234, fig. 429. The
height of the statue is 5 feet, 10.5 inches (_B. M. Sculpt._). The
_Apollo-on-the-Omphalos_: Kabbadias, 45; Staïs, _Marbres et Bronzes_,
pp. 23-24 and fig.; _J. H. S._, I, Pl. V, fig. 3; Collignon, I, p. 405,
fig. 209; B. B., 42; von Mach, 66; F. W., 219; Reinach, _Rép._, II, 1,
85, 7; Conze, _op. cit._, Pls. III-V, and text, pp. 13 f.; Murray, I,
Pl. VIII, opp. p. 234 (both statues); torso in Munich, Arndt-Amelung,
_Einzelauf._, nos. 849-50; for list of other copies, see _A. M._, IX,
1884, pp. 239-40.
[736] _Cf._ _B. M. Sculpt._, I, no. 209 (A. H. Smith).
[737] See Waldstein, p. 180; F. W., no. 219; _A. M._, IX, 1884, p. 248.
[738] Reinach, _Rép._, II, 1, 85, 9; M. D., I, p. 47, no. 179; _cf._ F.
W., 219. Overbeck, _Griech. Kunstmythol._, III. _Apollon_, p. 162, fig.
9.
[739] _A. M._, I, 1876, Pl. X, and pp. 178 f. (Kekulé); Bulle, 105
(Left) and p. 208, fig. 47.
[740] Published in _J. H. S._, XXVI, 1906, pp. 278-80 (Dickins); here,
on p. 279, we have the fragment photographed with the lower parts
of the _Choiseul-Gouffier_ and _Omphalos_ copies on either side;
Dickins says that with the possible exception of the Athens statue
this fragment shows the best workmanship of all the copies. Helbig,
_Fuehrer_, no. 1268.
[741] _B. M. Sculpt._, I, no. 211; it shows the _krobylos_ best.
[742] _B. M. Sculpt._, I, no. 210.
[743] Braun, _Vorschule d. Kunstmythol._, Pl. V, (quoted by A. H.
Smith).
[744] _Mon. d. I._, X, 1874-78, Pl. 54; discussed in _Annali_, L, 1878,
pp. 61 f. (Brizio).
[745] _Cf._ Helbig, _Fuehrer_, I, no. 859; Beulé, _Monnaies d’Athênes_,
p. 271, quoted in _Jb._, II, 1887, p. 235, n. 54.
[746] _Jb._, II, pp. 234 f.; on p. 234, the Athens statue and the
figure from the Bologna krater are shown side by side.
[747] _Fuehrer_, under no. 859 (the Capitoline replica), and especially
under no. 1268.
[748] _Beitraege zur Gesch. d. gr. Pl._^2, p. 19.
[749] Roscher, _Lex._, I, p. 456.
[750] _A. M._, IX, 1884, p. 244.
[751] Mentioned by P., I, 3.4; this view has been upheld by Conze,
_l.c._; Murray, I, p. 235; _cf._ Furtw., _l. c._, and on the artist,
see his article in _Sitzb. Muen. Akad._, 1907, pp. 160 f.
[752] _S. Q._, nos. 508-526.
[753] Furtw., _l. c._; the coin in the British Museum is pictured in
_J. H. S._, XXIV, 1904, p. 205, fig. 2. Conze’s theory of identifying
the type with the _Alexikakos_ has been questioned among others also by
Overbeck: I, n. 226, to pp. 280 (on p. 301).
[754] Dionys. Halic., _de Isocrate Judicium_, III, p. 542 (ed. Reiske);
_S. Q._, 531.
[755] _Op. cit._, especially p. 182.
[756] P., VI, 6.6. He won in the early fifth century, in Ols. 74, 76,
77 (= 484, 476, 472 B. C.): _Oxy. Pap._; Hyde, 56; Foerster, 185, 195,
207.
[757] F. W., nos. 219 and 221. Clarac, Text, Vol. III, p. 213, leaves
it in doubt whether it be Apollo or an athlete; however, he calls the
Capitoline copy an athlete.
[758] Published by Miss K. A. McDowall, _J. H. S._, XXIV, 1904, pp.
203-7 and fig. 1.
[759] The untrustworthy character of the Torlonia copy has been shown
by Overbeck, _Kunstmythologie_, III, _Apollon_, pp. 109 and 162.
The Roman copy in the Capitoline is also inferior, and the legs are
wrongly restored—for at that period in art there was little difference
between the free and the rest leg; see Helbig, _Fuehrer_, no. 859;
Stuart Jones, _Cat. Mus. Capit._, p. 287, no. 20 and Pl. 69; Conze,
_Beitraege zur Gesch. d. gr. Pl._^2, Pl. VII; Clarac, 862, 2189; head
in Arndt-Amelung, _Einzelaufnahmen_, Serie II, 452-4, p. 35.
[760] Waldstein ascribed the original to Pythagoras, partly because
this artist was famed for the detail of veins, sinews, and hair: see
Pliny, _H. N._, XXXIV, 59.
[761] _Bildw. v. Ol._, Textbd., pp. 223 f.; Tafelbd., Pl. LVII, 3-5.
The original height was 2.60 meters.
[762] _Strena Helbigiana_, 1900, p. 293; discussed also by Miss
McDowall (_l. c._ and fig. 3, p. 206); a poor replica is in Munich:
Furtw., _Mw._, p. 115, and fig. 21.
[763] _B. M. Coins, Troas_, etc., Pl. XXXII, 1; McDowall, _l. c._, fig.
4, p. 207.
[764] Bulle, 50, who gives the height 1.86 meters; von Mach, 115;
Reinach, _Rép._, II, 2, 547, 9; other references _infra_, on p. 152, n.
5.
[765] _Jh. oest. arch. Inst._, VIII, 1905, pp. 42 f.; IX, 1906, pp. 279
f.; _cf._, Furtw.-Urlichs, _Denkm._, pp. 105-6, n. 1 (Engl. ed., p.
120).
[766] _Jh. oest. arch. Inst._, XII, 1909, pp. 100 f. He thinks that the
original may have been identical with the statue of Ἀπόλλων ἀναδούμενος
standing before the temple of Ares at Athens, P., I, 8.4, and that the
παῖς ἀναδούμενος of Pheidias at Olympia, P. VI, 4.5, also may have
been an Apollo. He also interprets the figure of a charioteer entering
a chariot on an Attic relief (Fig. 63), to be discussed later, as an
Apollo: _Jb._, VII, 1892, pp. 54 f. For the relief, see B. B., 21; von
Mach, 56; F. W., no. 97; _infra_, pp. 269 f.
[767] _Cf._, Pliny, _H. N._, XXXIV, 18 (_Achilleae_). On these
“Achillean” statues (a generic name for statues of athletes leaning
on their spears, from Achilles, the typical hero of ephebes), see
Furtwaengler, _Jahrbuecher f. cl. Philol._, Supplbd., IX, 1877, p. 47,
n. 11.
[768] _Jh. oest. arch. Inst._, VIII, 1905, pp. 269 f. Miss McDowall,
in the article already cited, p. 204, has also argued that there is no
necessary connection between the quiver slung over the tree-support and
Apollo.
[769] _Inschr. v. Ol._, 162-3; Loewy, _op. cit._, X, 1907, pp. 326
f. Studniczka, _ibid._, IX, 1906, pp. 311 f., discusses the base and
believes that the pose of the statue of Pythokles was the same as that
of the _Borghese Ares_ of the Louvre (von Mach, 125; F. W., 1298;
Reinach, _Rép._ I, 133, 1-3; etc.), the weight on the left foot, _i.
e._, essentially different from the Polykleitan pose.
[770] _R. M._, XXVII, 1912, p. 37.
[771] Duetschke, IV, no. 52 (= wrongly female); _J. H. S._, XXVI, 1906,
Pl. XV (three views), and pp. 235 f. (Wace).
[772] _Mp._, p. 247; _Mw._, pp. 448-449; he assigns it to the third
quarter of the fifth century B. C.
[773] Amelung, _Rev. arch._, II, 1904, p. 344.1; Wace, _l. c._, p. 237.
[774] Both Schreiber, _A. M._, VIII, 1883, pp. 246 f., and Studniczka,
_Jb._, XI, 1896, pp. 255 f., have shown that the hair arranged in the
double plait, whether the κρωβύλος or not, is Attic, and that similarly
the mass of locks over the ears is common in Attic works.
[775] P., V, 7.9. In V, 7.7, the Idæan Herakles is said to have first
crowned his brother as victor there; _cf._ V, 8.3-4. We have already
(p. 10) spoken of the difference of opinion as to whether it was the
Cretan (Idæan) Herakles, or the more famous son of Zeus and Alkmena,
who founded the games. On the traditional connection of the hero with
Olympia, see E. Curtius, _Sitzb. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. zu
Berlin_, 1894, pp. 1098 f.; Busolt, _Gr. Gesch._,^2 I, pp. 240 f.;
Krause, _Olympia_, pp. 26 f.
[776] With the river-god Acheloos, III, 18.16 (the contest pictured
in relief on the throne of Apollo at Amyklai; _cf._ the same scene
represented by the cedar-wood figures inlaid with gold on the treasury
of the Megarians at Olympia, VI, 19, 12); with Antaios, IX, 11.6
(pictured in the sculptures of the gable of the Herakleion at Thebes);
with Eryx, III, 16.4 and IV, 36.4.
[777] P., V, 8.4.
[778] P., V, 21.9; he won in Ol. 178 (= 68 B. C.): Foerster, 570-1.
[779] V, 21.10.
[780] These victors were Kapros of Elis, who won in Ol. 124 (= 212 B.
C.): Hyde, 150; Foerster, 474, 475; he had two statues, the remains of
which may have been recovered: see _Bronzen v. Ol._, Tafelbd., Pls. II,
III; Aristomenes of Rhodes, who won in Ol. 156 (= 156 B. C.): Foerster,
505-6; Protophanes of Magnesia ad Maiandrum (ad Lethaeum in P., _l.
c._), who won in Ol. 172 (= 92 B. C.): Foerster, 538-9; Marion of
Alexandria, who won in Ol. 182 (= 52 B. C.): Foerster, 579-80; Aristeas
of Stratonikeia, who won in Ol. 198 (= 13 A. D.): Foerster, 609-10;
Nikostratos of Aigeai in Kilikia, who won in Ol. 204 (= 37 A. D.):
Foerster, 621-2.
[781] Two men entered later, but were disqualified: Sokrates, who won
in wrestling (?) in Ol. 232 (= 149 A. D.): Foerster, 704; and Aurelios
Ailix, or Helix, of Phœnicia, who won the pankration in Ol. 250 (=
221 A. D.): Foerster, 734. See Dio Cassius, LXXIX, 10; Philostr.,
_Heroicus_, III, 13 (p. 147, ed. Kayser); _cf._ Ph., 46 and note by
Juethner, _ad loc._ Ailix won in both events on the same day at the
Capitoline games in Rome, which no one had done before: Foerster, _l.
c._ Frazer, III, p. 625.
[782] Such victors were numbered in two ways; some authorities in the
way mentioned above, _e. g._, Dio Cassius, _l. c._; others numbered
them δεύτερος, τρίτος, κ. τ. λ., _e. g._, Africanus; _cf._ Rutgers, pp.
73 f. and n. 1, and p. 97 and n. 2.
[783] See F. Kindscher, Die herakleischen Doppelsieger zu Olympia,
_Jahn’s Archiv f. Phil. u. Paedag._, II, 1845, pp. 392-411.
[784] P., IV, 32.1 (statues of the three in the Gymnasion at Messene).
He mentions, IX, 11.7, a Gymnasion and Stadion of the hero near the
Herakleion in Thebes.
[785] _B. C. H._, XXIII, 1899, pp. 455-6.
[786] On the difficulty of distinguishing statues of victors from those
of Herakles, see also Arndt, _La Glypt. Ny-Carlsberg_, Text, p. 138, to
Pl. 94.
[787] P., VI, 2.1.
[788] Ch. VI, pp. 293 f., especially pp. 298-299.
[789] _La Glypt. Ny-Carlsberg_, Pl. 117 (three views). It was formerly
in the Tyszkiewicz collection.
[790] See Arndt, _l. c._ Furtwaengler believed the head Praxitelean:
see Roscher, _Lex._, I, 2, p. 2166 ll. 61 f. S. Reinach saw in it a
_mélange_ of Skopaic and Praxitelean elements: _Gaz. d. B.-A._, 3,
Pér., XVI, 1896, II, p. 332 and fig. on p. 328; _Têtes_, Pl. 176, p.
139; he is followed by Arndt.
[791] _Antichita di Ercolano, Bronzi_, I, Pls. 49 and 50; D. Comparetti
e G. de Petra, _La Villa Ercolanese dei Pisoni_, 1883, Pl. VII, 3, p.
261, 4; Rayet, II, Pl. 66; B. B., no. 364; F. W., 1302. Similarly, the
bronze head of a youth in Naples, with a rolled fillet, may be from the
statue of a victor or of the hero: Invent., 5594; B. B., 365.
[792] For the Naples replica, see Comparetti e de Petra, _Villa
Ercolan._, Pl. XXI, 3; Furtw., _Mp._ p. 234, fig. 95; _Mw._, p. 430,
fig. 65; poorer copy in the Museo Chiaramonti of the Vatican (no.
139): Helbig, _Guide_, 69; B. B., 338; another in Broadlands, England:
Michaelis, p. 220, no. 10; _Mp._, p. 235, fig. 96; _Mw._, p. 431, fig.
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