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(Jones).
[1359] B. B., no. 566; von Mach, 64; Gardner, _Sculpt._, PI. XI;
Gardiner, p. 96, fig. 13 (from a copy of the Munich cast in the
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
[1360] Pl. no. 97; _cf._ Gardner, _Sculpt._, Pl. XII, and
Furtw.-Urlichs, _Denkmaeler_, Pl. XXXIII.
[1361] _Philopseudes_, 18; _S. Q._, §544; translation of H. Stuart
Jones, _Select Passages from Ancient Writers Illustrative of the
History of Greek Sculpture_, p. 69.
[1362] For the late Roman one in the Munich Antiquarium, see B. B.,
text to Pl. 567, fig. 1; F. W., 453; for the one in Arolsen, see F. W.,
1786.
[1363] _B. M. Gems_, no. 742, Pl. G; also given in _B. M. Sculpt._, I,
p. 91, fig. 5.
[1364] _Inst. orat._, II, 13.10: _Quid tam distortum et elaboratum
quam est ille discobolos Myronis? si quis tamen, ut parum rectum,
improbet opus, nonne ab intellectu artis abfuerit, in qua vel praecipue
laudabilis est ipsa illa novitas ac difficultas?_
[1365] Translation by G. F. Hill, in his _One Hundred Masterpieces of
Sculpture from the Sixth Century B. C. to the Time of Michelangelo_,
1909, p. 10.
[1366] Enumerated above in Ch. III (Attic Sculptors), p. 129, n. 7. The
Spartan Lykinos had two statues: P., VI, 2.1. As he won in both the
hoplite-race and chariot-race, Foerster, 211 a, assumed that the two
statues represented victor and charioteer, and that they stood upon
the quadriga, which Pausanias does not mention. I follow Robert, _O.
S._, p. 172, however, in assuming that the two statues represented the
victor in the two events.
[1367] _H. N._, XXXIV, 57.
[1368] VI, 8.5; Hyde, 79 (Arkadian) and 79a (Philippos), and commentary
on pp. 39 f.
[1369] The interpretation of Murray, _Class. Rev._, I, 1887, pp. 3-4.
[1370] The emendation of Loeschke, _Dorpaterprogr._, 1880, p. 9;
accepted by Reisch, p. 44, n. 3, Richardson, p. 151, and others.
[1371] _Der Dornauszieher und der Knabe mit der Gans_, 1876, p. 89, n.
30.
[1372] Quoted by Jex-Blake, Add. to p. 46, 1.
[1373] _Select Passages from Anc. Writers Illustrative of the History
of Gk. Sculpt._, p. 66.
[1374] Mayer, in _A. M._, XVI, 1891, pp. 246 f., showed that on
vase-paintings of Myron’s time and on coins of Elaia, Aeolis, a woman
is often represented as standing in the chest, while two men, Perseus
and the carpenter, stand beside it.
[1375] _E. g._, the statue of the boy boxer Athenaios of Ephesos was
represented in motion, _i. e._, in the act of sparring, as we see from
the footprints on the recovered base: _Inschr. v. Ol._, 168; he won
some time between Ols. (?) 93 and 103 (= 384 and 368 B. C.): P., VI,
4.1; Hyde, 36; Foerster, 419.
[1376] See Grenfell and Hunt, _Oxyrhynchus Papyrus_, II, 1899, pp. 222
f.; Robert, _O. S._, Beilage, opp. p. 192; Diels, _Hermes_, XXXVI,
1901, pp. 72 f.; Koerte, _ibid._, XXXIX, 1904, pp. 224 f.; Weniger,
_Klio_ (_Beitraege zur alten Gesch._), IV, pp. 125 f.; V, pp. 1 f. and
184 f.
[1377] Late inscriptions mention “Pythian” and “Isthmian boys”: see F.
M. Mie, _Quaestiones agonisticae ad Olympia pertinentes_, Diss. inaug.,
1888, p. 48; Dittenberger, _Sylloge_,^2 II, nos. 677-8; the ἀγένειοι
and ἄνδρες at Nemea are mentioned by Pindar, _Ol._, VIII, 54. The boys
in these contests were probably aged 12-16, the ἀγένειοι, 16-20 (_cf._
Roberts-Gardner, _Greek Epigraphy_, II, p. 166), and the men over 20
years old.
[1378] For Olympia, see P., VI, 2.10; 6.1; 14.1-2; etc.
[1379] _C. I. G._, I, 1590.
[1380] Dittenberger, _op. cit._, II, no. 524: ἐφήβων νεωτέρων, μέσων,
πρεσβυτέρων.
[1381] _I. G._, II, 444. For the _Panathenaia_, see Suidas, _s. v._
Παναθήναια; Mommsen, _Heortologie_, 1864, p. 141; etc.
[1382] P., V, 16.2.
[1383] _De Leg._, VIII, 833 C, D.
[1384] _C. I. G._, inscriptions relating to ephebes, _e. g._, I, 232;
1590; Dittenberger, _de Ephebis atticis_, 1863, p. 24; Dumont, _Essai
sur l’Ephébie attique_, 1876, pp. 215-16. This classification is
followed by E. Pottier, _B. C. H._, V, 1881, p. 69.
[1385] Bussemaker, in Dar.-Sagl., I, Pt. 1, _s. v._ _athleta_, p. 517
(also quoted by Pottier), proposed the division into παῖδες, 12-16
years old, ἀγένειοι, 16-20, and ἄνδρες, from 20 on. Pollux, VIII, 105,
and Harpokration, _s. v._ ἐπιδιετές, give the ephebe age as 18-20;
Xen., _Cyr._, 1, 2.8, puts the age at 16 or 17 for the Persians.
[1386] See _Inschr. v. Ol._, 56. On the whole subject, see Krause, pp.
262 f., especially p. 263, n. 3; Gardiner, pp. 271-2.
[1387] VI, 1.3 to VI, 18.7. We also know of 61 other victors with 63
monuments from inscribed base fragments recovered at Olympia; these
will be treated _infra_ in Ch. VIII, pp. 353 f.
[1388] See Ch. VIII, _infra_, p. 339 and notes 3-4.
[1389] On _Ol._, IX, 150, Boeckh, p. 228; _cf._ _Etym. magn._, _s. v._
στάδιον, p. 743, 25.
[1390] Thus Apollo beat Hermes in running at Olympia, P., V, 7.10;
the Idæan Herakles instituted a race among his brothers, P., V,
7.7; and Endymion set his sons to run, and so instituted the boys’
running race there, P., V, 1.4. The running race appears in the Boread
legend, Ph.,3; pseudo-Dio Chrysost., XXXVII, p. 296 (Dindorf); it was
represented on the Kypselos chest: P., V, 17.10, and appears on many
archaic vases. On the age of the event, see Grasberger, _Erziehung und
Unterricht_, I, 1864, p. 310 and III, 1881, p. 199. The Cretans and the
Lacedæmonians sacrificed to Apollo δρομαῖος: Plut., _Quaest. conviv._,
VIII, 4.4.
[1391] See Ph., 3, for the four running races; _cf._, Plato, _de Leg._,
833 A, B.
[1392] Iliad, XXIII, 740 f.; Od., VIII, 120 f. (in l. 121 it is
called δρόμος). In some historic games, the stade-race remained the
only event; _e. g._, at the _Hermaia_ on Salamis: _C. I. G._, I, 108.
For the stade-race, see P., I, 44.1; III, 14.3; IV, 4.5, etc. On its
origin, see Ph., 5.
[1393] Schol. on Aristoph., _Aves_, 292 (ed. J. W. White, 1914); P., V,
8.6. On its origin, see Ph., 6 and _cf._ Krause, pp. 345 f.
[1394] Ch. 4.
[1395] Suidas, _s. v._ δόλιχος; schol. on Aristophanes, _Aves_, 292 (=
seven stadia); Boeckh, _C. I. G._, I, no. 1515, p. 703 (= ordinarily
seven stadia); schol. on Soph., _Electra_, 691. See Krause, I, p. 348,
n. 13; Grasberger, _op. cit._, I, pp. 312 f.
[1396] Poll., III, 151; schol. on Aristoph., _Acharn._, 214; etc.
[1397] P., _passim_; _Oxy. Pap._; etc.
[1398] Ph., 7. For two theories of its origin, see _ibid._
[1399] P., X, 7.5; Krause, _Die Pythien, Nemeen, und Isthmien_, pp. 136
f.
[1400] _Cf._ Plato, _de Leg._, I, p. 625 E. Thus the Cretans Ergoteles
and Sotades won the distance race twice each; Ergoteles in Ols. 77
and 79 (= 472 and 464 B. C.): P., VI, 4.11; _Oxy. Pap._; Hyde, 46;
Foerster, 206, 213; Sotades in Ols. 99, 100 (= 384, 380 B. C.): P., VI,
18.6; Hyde, 186; Foerster, 317, 323. The Cretan Philonides, courier
of Alexander the Great, had an honor statue at Olympia: P., VI, 16.5;
Hyde, 154a. At the games at Trapezous over sixty Cretans entered: Xen.,
_Anab._, IV, 8, 27; _cf._ Krause, pp. 352 f.
[1401] _De Leg._, VIII, 833 C.
[1402] V, 16.3.
[1403] V, 8.6; _cf._ IV, 4.5; VIII, 26.4. His statement about the
antiquity of the event is corroborated by Plutarch, _Quaest. conviv._,
V, 2.12, Ph. (= only event until Ol. 14), and Eusebios, _Chronika_, I,
p. 193 (ed. Schoene). Gardiner, p. 52, believes that if the Olympic
games developed from a single event, it was probably not from the
stade-race, but from either the fight in armor or the chariot-race.
[1404] P., V, 8.6, etc.; Foerster, 1.
[1405] Discussed by Gardiner, pp. 52 and 272-3.
[1406] III, 8 (= Dorieus of Rhodes, who won his second victory in Ol.
88 (= 428 B. C.): P., VI, 7.1; Hyde, 61; Foerster, 260); V, 49 (=
Androsthenes of Mainalos, who won his first victory in Ol. 90, = 420 B.
C.: P., VI, 6.1; Hyde, 51; Foerster, 267).
[1407] Dittenberger, _Sylloge_^2, I, no. 256 (= Agesidamos of Messenia,
who won in Ol. 140, = 220 B. C.).
[1408] V, 8.6; confirmed by Ph., 12, and Eusebios, _Chron._, I, p. 193
(ed. Schoene).
[1409] _L. c._; corroborated by Ph., 12.
[1410] P., V, 8.9; Eusebios agrees with Pausanias, but Philostratos
says Ol. 46 (= 596 B. C.), _l. c._
[1411] P., V, 8.10; _cf._ III, 14.3. It was introduced at Delphi in 498
B. C.: see Gardiner, p. 70.
[1412] On running races, see Krause, I, pp. 337 f.; Gardiner, Ch. XIII,
pp. 270 f.; Dar.-Sagl., I, Pt. 2, pp. 1643 f.; Grasberger, _Erziehung
und Unterricht_, I, pp. 312 f.; etc.
[1413] Fig. 37 left = _Mon. d. I._, I, 1829-33, Pl. XXII, 6b; _cf.
ibid._, 4b, and X, 1874-78, Pl. XLVIII, f, and Panathenaic amphora
in Dar.-Sagl., I, Pt. 2, p. 1643, fig. 2229. Fig. 36A = Gerhard, IV,
Pl. CCLIX, 1. Also _cf._ a sixth-century B. C. amphora in Munich,
no. 498: _Mon. d. I._, X, Pl. XLVIII, m; Gardiner, p. 281, fig.
52; Perrot-Chipiez, X, p. 129, fig. 92 (right); a fourth-century
Panathenaic amphora: Gardiner, p. 283, fig. 53, from Stephani, _Comptes
rendus de la comm. impér. archéol._, St. Petersburg, 1876, Atlas, Pl. I.
[1414] Ph., 32: οἷον πτερούμενοι ὑπο τῶν χειρῶν.
[1415] The first = _B. M. Vases_, B 609; Gardiner, p. 280, fig. 51;
_Mon. d. I._, X, 1874-78, Pl. XLVIII, e, 4; G. F. Hill, _Illustrations
of School Classics_, 1903, fig. 390; the second (Fig. 37, right) =
_Mon. d. I._, I, 1829-33, Pl. XXII, 7b; Gardiner, p. 279, fig. 50;
Dar.-Sagl., p. 1644, fig. 2230. _Cf._ another in _Mon. d. I._, X, Pl.
XLVIII, f, 6.
[1416] National Museum, no. 761.
[1417] _Cf._ Reisch, p. 46.
[1418] On this mode of representing runners, see Schmidt in _Muenchener
archaeol. Studien zum Andenken A. Furtwaengler dargebracht_, 1909, pp.
249 f. (especially p. 257).
[1419] See Kalkmann, _Jb._, X, 1895, pp. 56 f, and fig. 4, p. 56 (=
Gerhard, IV, 256; Murray, _Designs from Greek Vases_, V, 18) two
runners; the interior of the same vase also represents such a runner:
p. 61, fig. 7. _Cf._ also p. 58, fig. 5 (= Murray, X, 37; _Mon. d. I._,
IV, 1844-48, Pl. XXXIII), representing Hermes on a r.-f. vase of the
severe style; also p. 59, fig. 6; etc. Also _cf._ Juethner, p. 41, fig.
36a (a later r.-f. kylix in Munich, no. 803 A), showing a pentathlete
running with an _akontion_. The following b.-f. vases, which show
representations of such archaic runners, are taken from Perrot-Chipiez,
X, 1914: the proto-Attic amphora of Nettos, p. 71, fig. 63 (= _Ant.
Denkm._, I, Text, p. 46); cup from Aegina, p. 77, fig. 68 (= _A. Z._,
XL, 1882, Pl. IX); Corinthian amphora, p. 103, fig. 74 (= Pottier,
_Vases antiques_, Pl. LIX, E 855); the Gorgon on the François Vase,
p. 165, fig. 108 (from Furtw.-Reichhold, _Griech. Vasenmalerei_, Pls.
I-III); on neck of an amphora by Pamphaios in the Louvre, p. 388, fig.
233 (= Pottier, _op. cit._, Pl. LXXXVIII).
[1420] Discussed (wrongly, I think, as Etruscan) by G. H. Chase: _A. J.
A._, XII, 1908, pp. 287 f., Pls. VIII-XVIII (especially XII-XVIII); Pl.
XV = Richardson, p. 69, fig. 27.
[1421] Richter, _Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes_, no. 46, fig. on
p. 30; _Museum Bull._, 1911 (April), pp. 92 f., and fig. 5 (Richter);
it is 4-5/8 inches tall.
[1422] No. 1959. It will be discussed in our treatment of hoplitodromes
_infra_, p. 209 and n. 2.
[1423] Richter, no. 16, fig. on p. 10; _Mus. Bull._, 1909 (May), p. 78
(Robinson); it is 2-7/8 inches tall.
[1424] Richter, no. 62, fig. on p. 43; Mus. Bull., 1913 (Dec.), pp. 268
f. and fig. 7 (Richter); it is 3-1/16 inches tall.
[1425] _Op. cit._, pp. 65 and 74.
[1426] _Aegina, das Heiligtum der Aphaia_, Pl. XCVI, nos. 32 and 3; in
the Glyptothek these are nos. 78 and 82; see von Mach, Pl. 78 (middle).
[1427] The Lapith G and the boy P: Treu, _Jb._, III, 1888, pp. 117 f.,
Pl. V (= Q and F in the new arrangement on Pl. VI); Kalkmann, _op.
cit._, p. 75.
[1428] Bulle, 180; it is 0.79 meter high.
[1429] _Ant. Denkm._, I, Pt. 5, 1890, Pl. LVI (text, pp. 45-46, by
Winter); B. B., no. 249; Bulle, 92 (two views) and 93; von Mach, 226;
Helbig, _Fuehrer_, II, no. 1353; _Guide_, 1063; Collignon, II, p. 361,
fig. 184; Gardiner, _Sculpt._, Pl. LXXIII; Reinach, _Rép._, II, 2, 419,
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