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[1077] Ueber die Bronzestatue des sog. Idolino (_49stes Berl.
Winckelmannsprogr._, 1889), p. 10. He classed it stylistically with the
_Oil-pourer_ of Munich and the _Standing Diskobolos_ of the Vatican,
which Brunn had called Myronic. He later, however, renounced his
Myronic theory and merely called it Attic, because of its resemblance
to figures on the Parthenon frieze: _Beilage zu den amtlichen Berichten
aus den k. Kunstsamml._, XVIII, no. 5, Juli, 1897, p. 73 (quoted by
Richardson, p. 161, n. 8).
[1078] _Festschr. f. Benndorf_, p. 175: here he assigns it not to Myron
himself, but to his son.
[1079] II, p. 30; he also admits its Polykleitan features.
[1080] _Polyklet u. s. Sch._, pp. 70 f., 1902; he assigns it to an
artist of the master’s circle.
[1081] _Mp._, 286; _Mw._, p. 500.
[1082] _Cronaca_, pp. 29-30, fig. 2 (= _Supplemento di Bolletino
d’Arte_, Roma, XII, Fasic. V-VIII) 1918 (Lucia Mariani). _Cf._ review
in _A. J. A._, XXIII, 1919, p. 319 and fig. 2; and also Mariani, _Rend.
della Reale Accad. dei Lincei_, XXVI, 1918, pp. 125-138, and fig. in
text.
[1083] Matz-Duhn, _Ant. Bildw._, no. 1111; Furtw., _Mp._, p. 287;
_Mw._, p. 502.
[1084] See material collected by Stephani, _Comptes rendus de la
commiss. impér. archéol._, St. Petersburg, 1873; _cf._ Fritze, _de
Libatione veterum Graecorum_, Berl. Diss., 1893.
[1085] II, pp. 416 f.
[1086] No. 2723; Svoronos, Tafelbd., II, Pl. CXXI (CI is a poor copy of
it); Staïs, _Marbres et Bronzes_, pp. 240-242 (0.45 meter high; 0.57
meter broad). Staïs also regards it as an _ex voto_ to Herakles.
[1087] It is broken away, but its outline is clear.
[1088] Kabbadias, 248; Staïs, _op. cit._, p. 86; Arndt-Bruckmann,
_Einzelaufnahmen_, 627 and 628 (head alone); noticed in _A. A._, 1889,
p. 147, and _A. M._, XIII, 1888, p. 231 (Wolters); _ibid._, XXXI,
1906, pp. 352 f. (von Salis); _Jb._, VIII, 1893, pp. 224 f., fig. 3
(restored), and Pl. IV (Mayer). It may be one of the statues seen by
Pausanias in the temenos: I, 18.6. It is 1.50 meters high without the
plinth (Mayer).
[1089] Furtwaengler, _Mw._, p. 378, n. 3 (_cf._ _Mp._, p. 196, n. 1),
p. 685, n. 2 and p. 737; he ascribes it to Kalamis or his school.
[1090] _H. N._, XXXIV, 81; statue also mentioned, _ibid._, XXII, 44.
[1091] In the National Museum, no. 12; Staïs, _Marbres et Bronzes_, pp.
362, 363 and fig. (0.09 meter high); three photographs, _A. M._, XXXI,
Pl. XXII; a poor photograph in Carapanos, _Dodone et ses ruines_, 1878,
Pl. XIV, 3, and p. 186.
[1092] In the statuette it is bent, but its original horizontal
position is indicated by the position of the hand.
[1093] Two copies: Hettner, _Die Bildw. d. koenigl. Antikensamml._,^4
1881, nos. 70, 88; F. W., 1217; Furtw., _Mp._, pp., 310-11, figs.
131-2; _Mw._, pp. 534-5, figs. 97-8; Springer-Michaelis, p. 314, fig.
562; Reinach, _Rép._, II, 1, 139, 5-6; M. W., II, 39, 459; Clarac, IV,
712, 1695.
[1094] Listed, _Mp._, p. 310, n. 2; _Mw._, p. 533, n. 3; one, formerly
in the Museo Boncompagni-Ludovisi, now in the Museo delle Terme, in
Rome: Reinach, _Rép._, II, 1, 139, 7; B. B., 376; Helbig, _Fuehrer_,
II, 1308; Collignon, II, p. 265, fig. 131; von Mach, 197. The original
must have been of bronze.
[1095] _H. N._, XXXIV, 69. For discussion, see F. W., note on p. 421
(to no. 1217).
[1096] In the Museo Chiaramonti, no. 297; Amelung, _Vat._, I, p. 509
and II, Pl. 53; Clarac, 479, 916.
[1097] _Cf._ _Beschr. d. Skulpt. zu Berlin_, no. 44; a poor torso of
the type is in the Museo Chiaramonti of the Vatican: Amelung, _Vat._,
no. 295 and Pl. 52; Reinach, _Rép._, II, 1, 173, 2.
[1098] Michaelis, p. 609, no. 24; _Specimens_, I, Pl. 30; _Mp._, p.
163, fig. 65 (front), p. 162, fig. 64 (profile), from an old cast from
the Mengs Collection in Dresden; _Mw._, Pl. XVI; other replicas, _Mp._,
p. 161, n. 3.
[1099] _Cat. Class. Coll._, pp. 214-17, and fig. 130 on p. 215.
[1100] _H. N._, XXXIV, 76: _Ctesilaus doryphoron et Amazonem volneratam
(fecit)_. Bergk long ago proposed to alter this name to Kresilas
(_Zeitschr. fuer Alterthumswissensch._, 1845, p. 962), and was
followed by Brunn (I, p. 261)—an emendation accepted by most recent
investigators. The argument derived from the _Amazon_ of Kresilas,
mentioned by Pliny, XXXIV, 53, and apparently repeated in the present
passage, is strong. Jex-Blake, however, finds the name Ktesilaos a good
Greek formation, though uncommon: see his note on p. 62.
[1101] _Mp._, pp. 161 f.; _Mw._, pp. 332 f.
[1102] It is plainly visible in the example from Petworth House, and in
the poor one lately in the possession of the Roman dealer Abbati: B.
B., 84 (from cast); _Bull. del. Inst._, 1867, p. 33 (Helbig); _Mon. d.
I._, IX, 1869-73, Pl. XXXVI; _Annali_, XLIII, 1871, pp. 279 f. (Conze);
it is also visible in the New York copy.
[1103] As on an Attic fifth-century B. C. grave-relief from the
Peiræus: Staïs, _Marbres et Bronzes_, p. 157 (who gives the height as
0.45 meter and the breadth as 0.32 meter); von Sybel, _Kat. d. Skulpt.
zu Athen_, 1881, no. 171; _Annali_, XXXIV, 1862, p. 212; Conze, _Die
Attischen Grabreliefs_, no. 929 and Pl. CLXXX; F. W., 1017; for similar
reliefs, see _Annali_, 1862, Pl. M.
[1104] Michaelis wrongly dated the original in the fourth century B.
C.; Brunn first recognized its fifth-century character: _Annali_,
XLVII, 1875, p. 31 (_apud_ Leop. Julius).
[1105] _Ant. Denkm._, I, 1, 1886, Pl. IV; B. B., no. 248; Bulle, 167;
Collignon, II, p. 492, fig. 256; Helbig, _Fuehrer_, II, 1350; _Guide_,
1051; Hekler, _Greek and Roman Portraits_, 1912, pp. 85-86; Gardner,
_Hbk._, p. 536, fig. 146; Amelung, _Museums and Ruins of Rome_, I, fig.
156; _Not. Scav._, 1885, p. 223; _Gaz. B.-A._, XXXIII, Pér. 2, I, 1886,
fig. on p. 427; Springer-Michaelis, p. 401, fig. 743; Reinach, _Rép._,
II, 2, 550, 10; Reinach classes it as an athlete or Herakles. It is
1.28 meters high (Bulle).
[1106] Discussed _infra_, Ch. IV, pp. 254-5.
[1107] For this reason Helbig wrongly assigned it to about 400 B. C.
[1108] _Ueber die griech. Portraetkunst_, 1894, pp. 12 f. (and fig.).
[1109] XXVII, 9.
[1110] _Philologus_, LVII (N. F., XI), pp. 1 f. and 649 f. Kleitomachos
won in Ols. 141, 142 (= 216, 212 B. C.): P., VI, 15.3; Hyde, 146;
Foerster, 472, 476. _Cf._ Suidas, _s. v._ Κλειτόμαχος. His statue was
set up by his father, and his victory sung by Alkaios of Messenia: _A.
G._, IX, 588.
[1111] _Cf._ Petersen, _R. M._, XIII, 1898, pp. 93-5; this theory of
Wunderer is also rejected by Hitz.-Bluemn., II, 2, p. 609.
[1112] Erected about 477 B. C.; Bulle, 84 (_Aristogeiton_) and 85
(_Harmodios_); etc.
[1113] Discussed _infra_, Ch. IV, pp. 220-1 and n. 5 on p. 220.
[1114] See Stephanos, _Lex._, _s. vv._ ταινία, ταινίδιον, ταινόω. This
victor fillet is mentioned by Lucian in reference to the _Diadoumenos_
of Polykleitos: _Philops._, 18.
[1115] Xen., _Symp._, V, 9; Plato, _Symp._, 212 E; it appears often
on statues of Dionysos: _e. g._, on one in Furtwaengler’s _Samml.
Sabouroff_, Pl. XXIII; Dionysos is called Χρυσομίτρης in Soph., _Oed.
Tyr._, 209. The fillet was used as a breast-band for women’s dresses:
Pollux, VII, 65; etc.
[1116] _J. H. S._, I, 1880, p. 177. In older days the athletic fillet
was called μίτρα (Lat. _mitella_): Pindar, _Ol._, IX, 84; _Isthm._,
V, 62 (of wool); Boeckh, _Explic. ad Pind._, p. 193. In the Iliad
μίτρα was the kilt or apron worn around the waist under the cuirass
(a ζωστήρ being worn outside): IV, 137; IV, 187; V, 857; etc. It was
used also later as a wrestler’s girdle: _A. G._, XV, 44; and for
women’s headbands: Alkm., I; _cf._ Eurip., _Bacchae_, 833. Athletes on
vase-paintings representing palæstra scenes often wear the fillet: _e.
g._, the wrestlers and other athletes on the Philadelphia r.-f. kylix
pictured in Fig. 50, have red bands in their hair. Later the μίτρα
was specially used of women; if of men, it was a sign of effeminacy:
Aristoph., _Thesmophoriazusae_, 163. The home of the μίτρα appears to
have been Asia, as it was commonly worn by Asiatics: see Hdt., I, 195;
VII, 62 (headdress); Virgil, _Aen._, IV, 216. We learn from Alkman
that it came from Lydia to Greece: fragm. 23, verses 67 f. On it, see
Bekker, _Charikles_, II, pp. 393 f., and Pauly-Wissowa, VII, 2, p. 2033
(Bremer).
[1117] See F. W., on 322. It appears on the “Apollo” type of early
sculpture, _e. g._, on the “Apollo” of Orchomenos (Fig. 7).
[1118] _Stud. z. Parthenon_, 1902, pp. 1 f.
[1119] VI, 2.2; Lichas won the chariot victory in Ol. 90 (= 420 B. C.):
Hyde, 14; Foerster, 270.
[1120] P., V, 11.1.
[1121] Bulle, no. 207; Furtw.-Wolters, _Besch._,^2 457; B. B., 8; here
it was inlaid with silver.
[1122] This may, however, be merely the remains of a wreath of gold:
see Rayet, II, text to no. 67 (J. Martha).
[1123] Bulle, no. 202; Lechat, p. 482, fig. 44. It is 0.23 meter high
(Bulle).
[1124] _Bildw. v. Ol._, Tafelbd., Pl. LIV; F. W., 322; Wolters thinks
this is scarcely a victor fillet.
[1125] This head, in the possession of Lord Leconfield, is a replica
of the same original as the one in the Metropolitan Museum (Pl. 15);
Michaelis, p. 609, no. 24. See discussion _supra_, pp. 144-5.
[1126] Noted by Furtw., _Mp._, p. 161.
[1127] P., VI, 1.7; he won in Ol. (?) 89 (= 424 B. C.): Hyde, 9;
Foerster, 796.
[1128] _A. M._, XIX, 1894, pp. 137-9 (J. Ziehen); fig. in text. It is
now in the Museum of the Peiræus Gymnasion.
[1129] On such representations in art, see Stephani, _Comptes rendus
de la commission impériale archéologique_, St. Petersburg, 1874, pp.
214-16.
[1130] Παῖς ἀναδούμενος: VI, 4.5; _S. Q._, 757.
[1131] _Hermes_, XXIII, 1888, pp. 444 f.; P., V, 11.3. Robert is
followed by Kalkmann, _Pausanias der Perieget_, 1886, pp. 90 f.
[1132] _Cf._ Frazer, IV, p. 11. Figures of athletes appear beneath the
throne on vases: Overbeck, _Griech. Kunstmythol._, Pl. I, 9 and 16;
Gerhard, I, Pl. VII. Flasch has tried to show that the throne figure
did not represent Pantarkes: Baum., II, p. 1099, 2; _cf._ Gurlitt,
_Ueber Pausanias_, 1890, p. 380.
[1133] VI, 10.6. Pantarkes won the boys’ wrestling match in Ol. 86 (=
436 B. C.): Hyde, 98; Foerster, 254.
[1134] Amongst others it has been assumed by Loeschke, Der Tod des
Pheidias (in _Histor. Untersuch. zum Schaefer-Jubilaeum_, Bonn, 1882),
p. 36; Schoell, _Sitzb. Muen. Akad._, 1888, I, p. 37 (Der Prozess des
Pheidias). Foerster, p. 19, n. 1, is against the identification. The
παῖς ἀναδούμενος is omitted in my victor lists (_de olympionicarum
Statuis_).
[1135] The παῖς ἀναδούμενος is mentioned between victors nos. 38 and 39,
_i. e._, in the Zone of the _Eretrian Bull_, while Pantarkes (98) is
mentioned among the statues in the Zone of the _Chariots_: see _infra_,
Ch. VIII, pp. 343 and 345, and Plans A and B.
[1136] _Cf._ Gurlitt, _Ueber Pausanias_, pp. 378 f.
[1137] _Cf._ Doerpfeld, _Baudenkmaeler v. Ol._, p. 21 and n. 1; Furtw.,
_Mp._, pp. 39-40; Frazer, _l. c._
[1138] _B. M. Sculpt._, I, no. 501; _Marbles and Bronzes_, Pl. VI; B.
B., 271; Bulle, 49; von Mach, 117; Springer-Michaelis, p. 259, fig.
461; F. W., 509; _Annali_, L, 1878, Pl. A and pp. 20 f. (two views)
(Michaelis); Clarac, V, 858 C, 2189 A; M. W., I, Pl. 31, fig. 136;
Reinach, _Rép._, I, 524, 2. The palm-trunk shows that the Roman artist
intended to represent a victor in his copy. It is 4 ft. 10.25 in. high
(Smith); 1.48 meters (Bulle).
[1139] Brunn, following older writers such as Winckelmann, had
pronounced it Polykleitan: _Annali_, LI, 1879, pp. 218 f.; _cf._
Murray, I, pp. 313 f. and Pl. IX. Kekulé called it Myronian: _49stes
Berl. Winckelmannsprogr._, 1889, p. 12; Gardner, _Sculpt._, p. 128,
finds it unrelated to Polykleitos and defends its Attic origin.
Everything about it—except the mode of tying the fillet—differs from
the copies of Polykleitos’ statue, and especially the pose. Against
Brunn’s view, see Michaelis, _Annali_, LV, 1883, pp. 154 f.
[1140] So Bulle, Arndt (text to B. B., 271), Furtwaengler (_Mp._,
pp. 244-5; _Mw._, pp. 444-5), Zimmerman (in Knackfuss-Zimmermann,
_Kunstgesch. des Altertums und des Mittelalters_, I, p. 152), and many
others.
[1141] _Cf._ especially the resemblance of the statue to the youth on
the West frieze: Michaelis, _Der Parthenon_, Pl. V, no. 9.
[1142] Pliny, _H. N._, XXXIV, 55, praises it equally with the
_Doryphoros_, and says that 100 talents were paid for it; in another
passage he says that a like sum was paid by King Attalos for a picture
of Dionysos by the Theban painter Aristeides: _ibid._, VII, 126; _cf._
XXXV, 24 and 100. A painting by Timomachos of Byzantium brought 80
talents: _ibid._, XXXV, 136.
[1143] _H. N._, XXXIV, 56; here he quotes Varro, who was drawing
probably from Xenokrates of Sikyon: see Jex-Blake, pp. xvi f.
[1144] Listed by Furtwaengler, _Mp._, pp. 239 f.; the torsos, by
Petersen, _B. com. Rom._, 1890, pp. 185 f.
[1145] _B. M. Sculpt._, I, no. 500; _Marbles and Bronzes_, Pl. IV; B.
B., 272; von Mach, 114; F. W., 508; _Mon. d. I._, X, 1874-78, Pl. XLIX
(3 views); Rayet, I, Pl. 30; Collignon I, p. 479, fig. 253; Murray, I,
Pl. X; Reinach, _Rép._, II, 2, 547, 5. Michaelis, by a comparison with
the _Doryphoros_, first showed that it was a copy of the _Diadoumenos_:
_Annali_, L, 1878, pp. 10 f. It is 6 ft. 1 in. tall (Smith).
[1146] Kabbadias, no. 1826; Bulle, 50; Gardner, _Sculpt._, Pl. 35; von
Mach, 115; _Mon. Piot_, III, 1896, pp. 137 f. (Couve), and Pls. XIV
and XV; Staïs, _Marbres et Bronzes_, pp. 84-85 and fig.; _B. C. H._,
XIX, 1895, pp. 460 f. (account of the Delian excavations by L. Couve)
and Pl. VIII (the statue in its surroundings at the excavations);
Springer-Michaelis, p. 277, fig. 498; Reinach, _Rép._, II, 2, 547, 9.
It is 1.86 meters high without the base (Couve).
[1147] Discussed _supra_, on pp. 92-3.
[1148] _Mon. Piot_, IV, Pls. VIII-IX; von Mach, no. 116 a; Furtw.,
_Mp._, p. 241, fig. 98; _Mw._, p. 439, fig. 68 (who called it the most
beautiful of all the copies); Reinach, _Rép._, I, 475, 6. The right arm
is wrongly restored.
[1149] Listed by Furtwaengler, _Mp._, pp. 240-2; _cf._ Gardner,
_Sculpt._, pp. 125 f.
[1150] Hettner, _Die Bildw. d. Antikensamml. zu Dresden_, pp. 80 and
86; _Annali_, XLIII, 1871, Pl. V, pp. 281 f. (Conze); Furtw., _Mp._,
Pls. X and XI; _Mw._, Pl. XXV; Gardner, _Sculpt._, Pl. 36 (two views);
F. W., 511.
[1151] B. B., no. 340; Conze, _Beitraege zur Geschichte d. griech.
Pl._^2, 1869, pp. 3 f., Pl. 2 (two views); F. W., 510.
[1152] _B. M. Sculpt._, III, no. 2729 (Addenda); _Mon. Piot_, III, p.
145 (Couve); _ibid._, IV, p. 73 (Paris); Gardner, _Sculpt._, Pl. 37.
[1153] _J. H. S._, VI, 1885, pp. 243 f. (Murray), and Pl. LXI.
[1154] _J. H. S._, XXXIX, 1919, pp. 69 f., and Pl. 1 (two views), and
p. 232 (with illustration of the palmette head-band).
[1155] _Mp._, p. 246, fig. 99 (with original head); _Mw._, p. 447, fig.
69.
[1156] Michaelis, p. 438, no. 3; Clarac, V, 851, 2180 A (headless); it
is 1.49 meters high (Michaelis). He believes that it originally was an
oil-pourer.
[1157] _Mp._, p. 246; _Mw._, p. 448. It is 12 centimeters high
(Furtwaengler).
[1158] κοτίνου στέφανος, P., VIII, 48.2; _cf._ _A. G._, IX, 357;
Aristoph., _Plut._, 586; Theophr., _Hist. Plant._, IV, 13.2. The custom
of using the olive crown is probably very ancient, despite Phlegon’s
statement that it was introduced in Ol. 7 (= 752 B. C.): frag. 1 (= _F.
H. G._, III, p. 604). Pindar says that it was introduced from the land
of the Hyperboreans by Herakles: _Ol._, III, 14 f; Bacchylides calls it
Aetolian: VII, 50 (γλαυκὸν Αἰτωλίδος ἄνδημ’ ἐλαίας). It probably goes
back to some form of popular magic.
[1159] B. B., no. 324; here small leaves are still remaining over the
forehead.
[1160] _Bronz. v. Ol._, II, 2 and 2 a. Here the leaves have
disappeared. See pp. 254-5.
[1161] _B. C. H._, V, 1881, Pl. III, text, pp. 65 f. (Pottier). Here is
listed a number of funerary reliefs representing athletes, which list
could easily be enlarged.
[1162] Helbig, _Fuehrer_, II, 1241; _Guide_, 977. On the motive, see
_Archaeol. Studien H. Brunn dargebr._, 1893, pp. 62 f.
[1163] The λημνίσκος (Lat. _lemniscus_) was merely the woolen fillet
by which chaplets were fastened on; Hesychios says it is a Syracusan
word; in any case it is used only by Roman writers and Greek writers of
the Roman age; _A. G._, XII, 123; Plut., _Sulla_, 27; Polyb., XVIII,
46 (where στέφανοι and λημνίσκοι are differentiated, though they are
usually interchangeable); _C. I. G._, III, 5361; _C. I. A._, III, 74.
Pliny says that it was of Etruscan origin, _H. N._, XXI, 4, and that
it was at first made of wool or linden-bark and later of gold; _cf._
XVI, 25. It was used at Rome at feasts, as a sign of special honor to
guests: Plaut., _Pseudolus_, (line 1265); Livy, XXXIII, 33.2; Suet.,
_Nero_, 25. For the Roman use of the _lemniscus_ for athletic victors
and poets, _cf._ Cicero, _Or. pro Sext. Roscio Amerino_, 35, 100;
Ausonius, _Epist._, XX, 6; etc. On the _lemniscus_, see Dar.-Sagl.,
III, 2, pp. 1099-1100.
[1164] _R. M._, VI, 1891, p. 304, no. 3.
[1165] _Mon. Piot_, XVII, 1909, Pls. II, III and pp. 29 f. (Merlin and
Poinssot).
[1166] _B. M. Sculpt._, III, no. 1754; B. B., 46; _Marbles and
Bronzes_, Pl. XXII; Collignon, I, fig. 255, on p. 500; Furtw.,
_Mp._, p. 252, fig. 105; _Mw._, p. 457, fig. 75 (back view);
Springer-Michaelis, p. 275, fig. 495; Reinach, _Rép._, II, 2, 546, 9.
It is 4 ft. 11 in. high (Smith), _i. e._, 1.48 meters.
[1167] Helbig, _Cat. Coll. Barracco_, no. 99, Pls. 38 and 38 a; _id._,
_Fuehrer_, I, 1083; sketches of the Westmacott and Barracco copies in
Kekulé, _49stes Berl. Winckelmannsprogr._, 1889, Pl. IV.
[1168] No. 254; _Arch. Eph._, 1890, pp. 207 f. (Philios) and Pls. X and
XI. Bulle, 51, gives the Westmacott and Barracco examples side by side;
in _J. H. S._, XXXI, 1911, Pl. II, we have the Westmacott, Barracco,
and Eleusis copies together. Furtwaengler, _Mp._, pp. 250 f., _Mw._,
pp. 453 f., Helbig, _Cat. Coll. Barracco_, p. 36, and Petersen, _R.
M._, VIII, 1893, pp. 101 f., have added many more torsos and heads as
copies or variants of the original.
[1169] See Helbig, _Fuehrer_, I, 1083. Its soft expression and forms
led Furtwaengler to derive it from the Praxitelean circle, from the
period when Praxiteles was influenced by Polykleitos, and to believe
that it represented a divinity, perhaps Triptolemos: _Mp._, p. 255 and
n. 2.
[1170] _Burlington Fine Arts Club, Catalogue Anc. Gk. Art_, 1904, no.
45, Pl. XXXIII; Furtw., _Mp._, p. 251, fig. 103; _Mw._, p. 454, fig.
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