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24 , 265 , 267 ; as dedicator of the Delphi Charioteer , 277. Arm, right, of boy victor, from Olympia, 46 ; bronze right arm from statue of Olympic victor, 322. Armed contest, in early Greek art, 8 - 9. Armor, race in; see Hoplite-race. Arndt, P., on so-called Jason , of Louvre, 87 ; on the Perinthos and allied heads, 180. Arolsen, statuette of diskobolos in, 187 . Arrhachion, crowned after death, 247 ; statue at Phigalia, 100 , 325 , 326f ., 328 , 335 , 337 , 363 ; inscription on, 333 ; one of oldest victor statues, 327 , 333 ; three victories of 327 ; throttled by adversary, 247. Ars statuaria , defined by Pliny, 302 . Artemas, P. Ailios, statue at Olympia, 360 . Artemidoros, Olympic victor, 354 . Artemidoros, T. Phlabios, statue in Naples, 369 . Artemis, on Sparta relief, 284 . Artemisia, chariot-group of, 264 . Artists, statues of, at Olympia, 285 . Arvanitopoullos, A. S., on bronze statue of youth found in sea off Antikythera, 81 , 84 . Aryballos, 74 , 119 , 137 , 138 , 212 ; on vase-paintings, 133 ; wrongly as wrestler attribute, 165. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, head of Diadoumenos in, 154 . Asiatics, wear loin-cloth, 48 . Asios, fragment of, 52 . Asklepiades, M. Aurelios, dedicates statue in Rome to father, 370 . Asklepiades, P., dedicates bronze diskos at Olympia, 22 , 360 . Asklepieion, the, at Athens, statues in, 130 . Asklepios, temple at Sikyon, 370 . Assimilation of statues of men to god and hero types, 71f .; of Olympic victor statues, 71f .; to types of Apollo, 88f .; of the Dioskouroi, 96f .; of Herakles, 93f ., 319 ; of Hermes, 75f . Assurbanipal, reliefs from palace of, at Nineveh, 330 . Assyro-Babylonian art, reliefs of, represented in motion, 177 ; influence on early Greek art, 329. Astragalos, base in form of, at Olympia, 240 . Astylos, bribed by Hiero of Syracuse, 33 ; statue at Kroton, 33 , 363 ; at Olympia, 179, 363. Asymmetry, example of, 70 . Atalanta, soul of, chooses body of athlete, in Plato's myth of Er, 36 ; statue of, from Tegea, 306, 310, 316. Athena, Alea, temple at Tegea, 306 ; Chalkioikos, hieron of, in Sparta, 283 ; helmeted heads of, 53 ; Lemnia , 53 ; Old Temple of, on Akropolis, 128 , 271 ; on relief from Tarentum, 96. AthenAEus, 57 , 284 . Athenaia ; see Panathenaia . Athenaios, statue at Olympia, 244 , 343 , 353 . Athens, athletes at, divided into two classes according to age, 189 ; coins of, showing Apollo, 90 ; statues of victors in, 26 - 27; Gymnasion of Ptolemy at, 166. Athletes: barefoot and bareheaded, 48 ; head of, in Capitoline called Juba II, 166 ; head of, in Metropolitan Museum, showing swollen ears, 168 ; statue of, in Copenhagen resembling the Agias , 293 ; statue found at Ephesos, 137 , 138 ; two statues in lunging attitude, in Dresden, 292 ; statue from Palazzo Farnese, now in London, 293 ; statue of late style in Lansdowne House, London, 180 ; statues of, adorn palAEstrAE and gymnasia, 297 ; statues of, assimilated to types of Apollo, 88f .; of the Dioskouroi, 96 - 97; of Herakles, 93f .; of Hermes, 75f .; bronze statuette in Louvre, 213, 214; etc. Athletics, origin and early history of Greek, 1f .; in Crete, 1f .; at Delphi, 25 ; in Homer, 7f .; athletics and Greek religion, 14 ; influence on sculpture, 64 ; athletic funeral scene on a Cypriote silver vase from Etruria, 13 ; Argive-Sikyonian school of athletic sculptors, 1 , 109f . Attalos, base of victor statue of Attalos, father of Attalos I, at Pergamon, 368 ; Portico of, in Athens, 368. Attic sculptors, 126f .; characteristics of, 128 ; examples of pre-Persian sculptures, 281 ; influence on Polykleitos, 152 , 153 ; old Attic canon of proportions, 68. Attributes of victor statues, 147f .; primary, 148f .; secondary 161f . Augustus, coins of, showing celery, 21 ; enlarges privileges of athletes in Rome, 33 ;

??????? ??????, when introduced at Olympia, 259, 260;

  • four-horse ?????????, on Panathenaic vase from Sparta, 263;
  • length of race with four colts at Olympia, 260;
  • length of race with four full-grown horses at Olympia, 260;
  • with mules ?????, when introduced at Olympia, 261;
  • at oldest funeral games, in Arkadia, 259;
  • oldest monument of, at Olympia, 264, 265;
  • origin of in mythical times, 259;
  • originally with two horses, 260;
  • when stopped at Olympia, 261;
  • sport of wealthy, 257;
  • representations, common on vases, 262f.;
  • trotting-race with mares ?????, 261, 282.
  • See Apobates, chariot-race.
  • Chariot victors, dedicate chariot-groups at Olympia, 264f.;
    • dedicate models of chariots at Olympia, 265;
    • dedicate statues at Olympia, 265;
    • act as own charioteers, 266–267.
  • Charmides, statue at Olympia, 342.
  • Charops, statue at Olympia, 358.
  • Chase, G. H., on bronze tripods in Loeb collection, 194, note 7;
    • on Monteleone chariot, 264.
  • Cheilon, ephor of Sparta, died of joy at Olympia, 36.
  • Cheilon, date of second victory of, 301;
    • fights at Lamia, 301;
    • statue at Olympia, 32, 121, 298.
  • Cheimon, statue at Argos, 366;
    • at Olympia, 117, 234, 344, 366.
  • Cheirisophos, sculptor, 334.
  • Chewsurs, of the Caucasus, funeral games among, 11.
  • ChimÆra tomb, so-called, at Xanthos, 271.
  • Chinnery Hermes, head, 181.
  • Chionis, statue at Olympia, 32, 333, 352, 362;
    • tablet of, at Sparta, 362;
    • record jump of, at Olympia, 216.
  • Chios, early sculpture of, 177; games on, 189.
  • Chisel, used in hair of the Agias and Philandridas, 297.
  • Chiton, conventional dress of charioteers, 275.
  • Chiusi, wall-painting from, 217.
  • Chlamys, on statues of Meleager, 313.
  • Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo, statue known as, 89f.;
    • replica of head in British Museum, 91;
    • replica of head, from Kyrene 334;
    • thongs on tree-trunk nearby, 165.
  • Chorus, of boys and girls, in honor of victors, 34.
  • Christodoros, description of statue of Hermes by, 87.
  • Chrysippos, quoted by Galen, 70.
  • Chrysothemis, sculptor, 105, 116.
  • Cicero, as art critic, 60.
  • Cincinnatus, 87.
  • Circassians, funeral games among, 11.
  • Circus, Roman, hair-fashion of athletes at, 52;
    • finally supersedes equestrian contests of Olympia, 261.
  • Cloak, prize at Pellene, 20.
  • Club, on Cretan grave-relief, 199;
    • on statuette from Palermo, 199.
  • Cockerell, on dedication from Delphi, 28;
  • temple of Apollo at, 336;
  • tripods in temple of Apollo at, 19;
  • victor monuments at, 26;
  • victor grave-relief from, 138.
  • Demeter, the Eleusinia in honor of, 18;
    • Chamyne, priestess of, admitted to Olympia, 16;
    • of Knidos, statue of, 311.
  • Demetrios, M. Aurelios, Olympic victor statue in Rome, 370.
  • Demetrios of Phaleron, honor statues in Athens, 41.
  • Demetrios, sculptor, 56.
  • Demokrates, statue at Olympia, 358.
  • Deonna, W., against Egyptian influence on early Greek sculpture, 329.
  • Dermys and Kitylos, grave-figures of, from Tanagra, 335.
  • Destringentes se, statues mentioned by Pliny, 136.
  • Diadoumenoi, or fillet-binders, 150f. Diadoumenos, of Pheidias, 150f.;
    • older than that of Polykleitos, 151;
    • motive of, 151;
    • Farnese copy, 151;
    • of Polykleitos, 152f.;
    • as example of rest statue, 99;
    • as example of “ethical grace,” 63;
    • leg position of, 159;
    • copy of, from Delos, 92f., 152, 153;
    • other copies of, 152f.;
    • head-style of, 152;
    • British Museum head of, 153, 154;
    • Dresden head of, 153;
    • Kassel head of, 153;
    • statuette from Smyrna, 154;
    • on throne of Zeus at Olympia, 150;
    • pose of Vaison and Farnese copies, 155.
  • Diagoras, most famous Greek boxer, 365;
    • statue at Olympia, 130, 365;
    • size of, 45;
    • family group of, 342, 343, 352.
  • Diaulodromos, or double sprinter, 193;
    • on Athens inscribed vase, 194.
  • Dickins, G., on Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo statue type, 90;
    • on statuette of trumpeter from Sparta, 283.
  • Didymaion, near Miletos, 108;
    • statues at, 26.
  • Diitrephes, statue on Akropolis, 199 and note 5, 373.
  • Dikon, three statues at Olympia, 29, 55;
    • bribed by Syracuse, 33.
  • Dio Chrysostom, on art, 61;
    • on confusing athlete and hero statues, 71;
    • on difference between victor and honor statues, 41;
    • on Theagenes’ statue at Thasos, 364.
  • Diodoros, on Egyptian influence on early Greek sculpture, 330;
    • on proportion in Egyptian statuary, 67, note 4;
    • on family of the artist Rhoikos of Samos, 330;
    • on Pythian Apollo by Telekles and Theodoros, 334.
  • Diogenes, five times victor in trumpeting, at Olympia, 283;
    • base of statue at Olympia, 360.
  • Diogenes Laertios, on gold statue vowed by Periandros, 266;
    • on Pythagoras, 67, 179.
  • Diomedes, as boxer, 169;
    • Delphic tripod ascribed to, 21;
    • single combat of, with Ajax, 114.
    • Fritsch, G., on body proportions in Greek sculpture, 67.
    • Froehner, W., on the Jason of the Louvre, 87.
    • “Frontality,” law of, formulated, 175, 328.
    • Frost, K. T., on bronze statue of youth found in sea off Antikythera, 82;
      • on differences between the Agias and Apoxyomenos, 290;
      • on LigouriÓ bronze, 111.
    • Funeral games, on archaic vases, 13;
      • attested by early Greek art, 12;
      • on Dipylon vase, in Copenhagen, 13;
      • in honor of Azan, 9; in honor of eminent men, 11;
      • in honor of Patroklos, 8, 9;
      • origin of, 14;
      • periodic, 13, 14;
      • on sarcophagus from Klazomenai, 13;
      • funeral customs survive in later ritual, 11.
    • Funerary reliefs, Attic, 66.
    • Furtwaengler, A., on Akropolis chariot relief, 271;
      • on the Alkibiades of Vatican, 199, 200;
      • on the Apoxyomenos of Uffizi, 137;
      • on the Apoxyomenos of Vatican, 136;
      • on Aristion’s statue, 88, 241;
      • on athlete head in Copenhagen, 95;
      • on athlete statue in British Museum, 293;
      • on bronze head of a boxer in Glyptothek, 63;
      • on bronze head of a boxer from Olympia, 255;
      • on bronze foot from Olympia, 255;
      • on bronze head from Akropolis, 115;
      • on bronze statuette in Louvre, 139;
      • on Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo type, 90;
      • on statue of Diitrephes, on Akropolis, 373;
      • on so-called Diomedes, of Palazzo Valentini, Rome, 207;
      • on doryphoroi of Pliny, 226;
      • on term doryphoros, 226;
      • on Dresden athlete statues, 292;
      • on Dresden Boy, 213;
      • on Egyptian influence on “Apollo” type, 329;
      • on ephebe statue from Akropolis, 115;
      • on erecting statues of victors at Olympia, 38;
      • on Esquiline charioteer, 276;
      • on Eupompos’ painting of Olympic victor, 160;
      • on excavations at Aegina, 124;
      • on HagelaÏdas, 110;
      • on Idolino, 141, 142;
      • on influence of athletics on Greek art, 64;
      • on Kassel boxer, 155;
      • on Kassel head of Polykleitos’ Diadoumenos, 153;
      • on kneeling figures from West gable at Olympia, 195;
      • on KresilÆan athlete head, 145;
      • on statue of Kylon, on Akropolis, 362;
      • on statue of Kyniska, at Olympia, 131;
      • on Kyniska’s victor group at Olympia, 267;
      • on Kyniskos’ statue, 74;
      • on Lansdowne Herakles36;
        • canon of, 68, 148, 159;
        • chariot-group of Kleosthenes, at Olympia, by, 266;
        • date of, 61, 321;
        • teacher of Myron and Polykleitos, 61, 110;
        • teacher of Pheidias, 110;
        • called Gelados by scholiast on Aristophanes’ Ranae, 110.
      • Hair-fashion, athletic, 50f.;
        • Bulle on hair, 53;
        • ephebes dedicate hair to a god, 51;
        • grained style, 53;
        • on Hellenistic heads, 296.
        • Long, at Athens, after Persian Wars, 51;
        • long, on athletes, before Persian Wars, 335;
        • braided, by boxers and pancratiasts, 51;
        • discarded in wrestling, 51;
        • in Homer, 50, 51;
        • on monuments, 52;
        • on old Attic vases, 52;
        • as sign of effeminacy, 51;
        • at Sparta, 51;
        • at ThermopylÆ, 51;
        • worn by knights, 51;
        • long and short, on god statues, 52;
        • pearl-string style of, 53;
        • pictorial treatment of, 53.
        • Short hair, on “Apollo” statues, 335;
        • short, on athletes, after Persian Wars, 51, 335;
        • on children, at Sparta, 51;
        • on early vases, 52;
        • on monuments, 52;
        • not characteristic of athletes, 50, 51;
        • as sign of mourning, at Athens, 51;
        • of slaves, 51;
        • sketchy treatment, on Hermes of Praxiteles, 303;
        • snail-volute style of, 53.
        • See Krobylos.
      • Halikarnassos, funeral games at, 11;
        • chariot-group from Mausoleion at, 244.
      • Halimous, grave-relief from Attic deme of, 249.
      • Halteres; see Jumping-weights. Hamilton, Gavin, 76.
      • Harmodios, statue of, 148, 173f.
        • See also Aristogeiton and Tyrannicides.
      • Hartwig. P., on bronze statuette from Capua, 207.
      • Hauser, F., on Autun statuette of pancratiast, 249–251;
        • on armor worn in hoplite-race, 203;
        • on bronze athlete statue from Ephesos, 138;
        • on bronze wrestlers from Herculaneum, 231;
        • on Delian Diadoumenos, 92;
        • on Tux bronze, 207.
      • Head-dress, artificial, on charioteers, 275, 276.
      • “Healer,” epithet of the Delian Apollo, 304.
      • Heave, in wrestling, 229;
        • bronze wrestler-group i an influence to Greek sculptors, 332;
          • school of sculpture from, 114;
          • women of, witness games, 49.
        • Ionians, short hair with, 52.
        • Ionism, in Greek art, 115f., 126, 129, 175;
        • Iphitos, restores Olympic games, 15.
        • Ismenian Apollo, the, statue in Thebes, 304.
        • Ismenion, the, at Thebes, tripods in, 19.
        • Isokrates, statue on Akropolis, 24, 27, 281, 373.
        • Isthmian festival, athletes divided into three classes according to age at, 189;
          • beast contests at, 25;
          • excavations on site of, 25;
          • famed in Roman days, 25;
          • funerary origin of, 9;
          • history and administration of, 17;
          • inferior to Olympia, 25;
          • later in honor of a god, 9;
          • in honor of Melikertes, 10;
          • most frequented, 25;
          • statue of victor at, in Athens, 27;
          • statues of victors at, on Isthmus, 26.
        • Italian ArchÆological Mission, 3.
        • Italy, funeral games, in ancient, 11.
        • Jahn, O., on symmetry, 66;
          • on the Wounded Amazon of Capitoline, 157.
        • Jason, statue so-called, of Louvre, 86.
        • Javelin (????????), 164, 165;
          • as athletic attribute, 108, 164;
          • Greek names for, 223;
          • size of, 223;
          • on vase-paintings, 164, 223.
        • Javelin-throwers (??????????), 222f.;
          • two bronze statuettes of, 227, 228;
          • on Spartan relief, 223.
        • Javelin-throwing, 222f.;
          • athletic type of, 223;
          • for distance, 223;
          • from horseback, on vase-paintings, 223;
          • at games of Patroklos, 222;
          • origin of, mythical, 222;
          • positions in, 223f.;
          • positions, given by E. N. Gardiner, 223;
          • practical, in war and the chase, 223;
          • in sculpture, 224;
          • two types of, 222, 223.
        • Jockey, nude, on vase-paintings, 280;
          • in short-sleeved chiton, on b.-f. Panathenaic vase, 280.
        • Jones, H. Stuart, on Pliny’s Perseus et pristae of Myron, 141;
        • on the Jason of Louvre, 86;
        • on the Oil-pourer of Munich, 134.
      • Kleito; see Polykleitos. Kleitomachos, statue at Olympia, 353;
        • identified wrongly with the Seated Boxer of Museo delle Terme, Rome, 253;
        • story of, from Polybios, 147, 247.
      • Kleitor, son of Azan, 9.
      • Kleitor, relief from, 132.
      • Kleobis (?), statue of, from Delphi, 105.
      • Kleoitas, sculptor, 27.
      • Kleomedes, heroized at death, 35.
      • Kleomenes, sculptor, 85.
      • Kleon, sculptor, 69, 120, 121, 164;
        • leg position of statues by, 159.
      • Kleonai, 17.
      • Kleosthenes, King of Pisa, 15.
      • Kleosthenes, of Epidamnos, chariot-group of, at Olympia, 23, 266, 344, 345.
      • Knee-runners, on bronze tripod reliefs, 194;
        • on small bronze relief in Metropolitan Museum, 194;
        • on marble relief of dying hoplite runner, 194;
        • on small bronzes, 195;
        • on vases, 194;
        • statue of kneeling youth from Subiaco, 195.
      • Knights, Helbig on Greek, 282;
        • Homeric method of, fighting from chariot, 272, 282;
        • on Parthenon frieze, 281.
      • Knossos, bull-grappling at, 1, 2;
        • ivory statuettes from, 3;
        • paved inclosure at, 3;
        • reliefs from, 3, 4;
        • seal from, showing huge horse, 1;
        • theatral area at, 3;
        • toreadors on wall-paintings from, 1, 3.
      • Koblanos, sculptor, 242.
      • Kodias (??????), jumping-weight of, 40.
      • Koehler, U., on the Apoxyomenos of Vatican, 290.
      • Koerte, on name “Apollo” for early statues, 335.
      • Korai, statues of, on Akropolis, 53, 115.
      • Koroibos, victor in first recorded Olympiad, 15, 191.
      • Kostobokoi, barbarian invaders of Greece, 370, 371.
      • Kouroniotis, K., letter of, quoted 327.
      • Kranaos, or Granianos, statue near Sikyon, 370.
      • Krates, victor as herald at Olympia, 283.
      • Kratinos, statue at Olympia, 122;
        • set up by trainer of, 31.
      • Kratisthenes, chariot-group of, at Olympia, 179, chariot-race on Parthenon frieze, 272;
        • on base of statue of Epicharinos, on Akropolis, 372;
        • on use of ?? ????? and ?? ???????? by Pausanias, 349;
        • on Lansdowne Herakles, 298, 313;
        • on Petworth ephebe statue, 133;
        • on the Standing Diskobolos, 76;
        • Michaelis, A., and Conze, A., on “Apollo” type as victor statues, 335.
      • Middle Kingdom, Egypt, dates of, 330 and note 6;
        • sculptures of, 330.
      • Mikon, of Athens, sculptor, 61, 62, 129.
      • Mikon, of Syracuse, sculptor, 375.
      • Mikythos, or Smikythos, group dedicated at Olympia by, 215, 351.
      • Milchhoefer, A., on painting by Eupompos, 160.
      • Miletos, coins of, 74, 118, 119, 336.
      • Military runner (??????????), 209.
      • Milo, statue at Olympia, 31, 106f., 130, 165, 337.
      • Miltiades, games in honor of, on Thracian Chersonesos, 11.
      • Miltiades, son of Kypselos, votive offering at Olympia, 264, 265.
      • Minoans, the, of Crete, 1;
        • influenced by Orient, 1;
        • love of sports among, 6.
        • See Crete.
      • Mnaseas, statue at Olympia, 161, 179, 181.
      • Mnesiboulos, statue in Elateia, 204, 371.
      • Monceaux; see Laloux and Monceaux. Mopsos, boxing match with Admetos, 285.
      • Mosaic, athlete, in Lateran, Rome, 215.
      • Mosso, A., on Boxer Vase, 6;
        • on origin of Greek boxing-glove, 235;
        • on Vapheio cups, 4.
      • Motion statues, antiquity of, in Greece, 176f.;
        • in Assyro-Babylonian art, 177;
        • in Cretan art, 177;
        • in Egyptian art, 176, 177;
        • in Greece, not developed out of “Apollo” statue type, 177;
        • on early vases, 177;
        • victor statues in, 173f.;
        • victor statues in various contests, 188f.
      • Motives, general, of statues in motion, 188f.;
      • Mounot, Étienne, sculptor, 185.
      • Mueller, K. O., on common features of victor statues, 44.
      • Mule-car, on Rhegian and Messanian coins, 263.
      • Mule-race (?????); see Chariot-race with mules. Munich King, statue so-called, 226.
      • Muscles, in Cretan art, 135;
        • statue so-called, in Munich, 99, 133f., 137;
        • as Attic work, 137;
        • head in Boston, copy of original of, 134;
        • pose of, 158;
        • torso in Dresden as variant of, 134, 135.
      • Oil-pouring, on gems, reliefs and terra-cotta statuettes, 135.
      • Oil-scraping, as athletic motive, 135f. Oinoanda, base of victor statue from, 371.
      • Oinomaos, chariot-race with Pelops, 14, 259;
      • Olaidas, honor statue at Olympia, 42.
      • Old Kingdom, Egypt, dates of, 330 and note 3;
        • sculptures of, 330.
      • Olive, crown of, as prize at Olympia, 155f.;
        • of “Fair Crown,” at Olympia, 20, 351;
        • wild, 20.
      • Olympia, account of monuments at, by Pausanias, 24;
        • age of boy victors at, 189;
        • antiquity of, from excavations and religious history, 16;
        • athletes at, divided into two classes, by ages, 189;
        • boxer head from, 62;
        • celebrated every four years, 15;
        • controlled by Eleans alone after Persian wars, 15;
        • early controlled by Pisa, 15;
        • early overshadowed by Delphi and Delos, 14, 15;
        • founded before Dorian invasion, 14;
        • funeral origin of, 9;
        • German excavations at, 43;
        • history of, 14;
        • held in honor of a god, 9;
        • held in honor of Pelops, 10;
        • importance of, from seventh century B.C., 15;
        • later controlled by Pisa and Elis, 15;
        • prehistoric buildings at, 16, 349;
        • sacrifices at, to Pelops and Zeus, 11;
        • as sanctuary prior to advent of AchÆans, 14;
        • style of head of athlete (Philandridas) from, 293f.;
        • style of gable statues from, 113, 114;
        • traditional history of, by Pausanias and Strabo, 15;
        • two figures from West gable of temple of Zeus from, 195;
        • victor statues in Altis at, 26; etc.
      • Olympia register, 15.
      • Olympiad, first dated, 15;
        • traditional first, 8;
        • the 8th, 34th, 104th, 211th, omitted from Elean register, 369.
      • Olympieion, statue from ruins of, 143.
      • Olympos, sculptor, 120.
      • Omphalos, from Athens, 89.
      • Onatas, sculptor, 246;
      • on jumping-weights, 215, 216;
      • on method of putting on boxing thongs, 236;
      • on omitted 211th Olympiad, 369;
      • on pankration as “fairest of contests,” 246;
      • on prohibition against biting and gouging in pankration, 246;
      • on reason for nudity of Olympic athletes, 47;
      • on Spartans allowing biting and gouging in pankration, 246;
      • on statue of Milo, 106, 337;
      • on style of long race, 194;
      • on reason for Pythian air being played at pentathlon, 285.
    • Philotimos, sculptor, 123, 264, 268, 279.
    • Philoumenos, inscription from base of statue of, 371.
    • Philys; see Phillen.
    • Phlegon, on olive crown, 20.
    • Phoenicians, the, transmit Assyrian and Egyptian designs to Greece, 330.
    • Phokis, confederacy of, sets up statue at Olympia, 30.
    • Phormis, offering at Olympia, 28, 62, 163, 264.
    • Phorystas, base of statue from Tanagra, 368.
    • Phradmon, sculptor, 117.
    • Phrikias, head ascribed to, 162, 163, 353;
      • statue at Olympia, 106.
    • Phrixos, on shield relief, 162.
    • Physical differences, in athletes, 59.
    • Piankhi, King of Aethiopia and invader of Egypt, 331.
    • Pictorial hair technique, 53.
    • Pinakotheke, the, at Athens, 29.
    • Pinax, of victresses at the Heraia, at Olympia, 49;
      • votive on Attic vase, 29;
      • ????????, iconic, 182.
    • Pindar, on boxing and wrestling, 8;
      • on connection of Pelops with Olympia, 10;
      • on early value of bronze, 19;
      • on non-existence of the pentathlon in heroic days, 210;
      • ode on flutist Sakadas, 284;
      • scholia on, 26, 130, 190;
      • seventh Olympic ode of, 343;
      • sings praises of victors, 36;
      • sixth Pythian ode of, 267;
      • writes eight odes in praise of pankration, 246.
    • Pine, the, at the Isthmus, 21;
      • wreath of, at the Isthmus, 20;
      • at Nemea, 21.
    • Piombino, bronze statuette from, 118.
    • Pison, sculptor, 278.
    • Plane-tree Grove, Sparta, 319, 367.
    • Plastic hair technique, 53.
    • PlatÆa, t tm.html#Page_311" class="pginternal">311;
    • Praxiteles and Kalamis, chariot-group by, 268;
    • Praxiteles and Philandridas head from Olympia, 293;
    • Praxiteles and Skopas differentiated, 311;
    • statue of a ?????????? by, 131.
  • Prayer, as motive in votive monuments, 130;
    • position of hands in Greek, 132;
    • statue of youth represented in, from Carinthia, 131;
    • statue of youth represented in, Berlin, 131;
    • statuette of youth represented in, Metropolitan Museum, 132, 133.
  • Praying Boy, the, statue so-called, in Berlin, 131, 132.
  • Preuner, E., on inscription from statue base in Pharsalos, 286, 317, 318, 363.
  • Pristae, by Myron, 188.
  • Prizes, on chest of Kypselos, 13;
    • at contests of beauty, 57;
    • early athlete, 18f.;
    • at games of Azan, 9;
    • at games of Patroklos, 19.
  • Processional entrance, the, of the Altis, 347.
  • Processional way, the, of the Altis, 348, 349, 350.
  • Professionalism in athletics, at Olympia, 361;
    • protests against, 36, 37.
  • Profile, first example of Greek, 116.
  • Prokles, statue at Olympia, 345, 346.
  • Promachos, statues at Olympia and Pellene, 31, 304, 323, 325, 326, 367.
  • Proportio, in Greek art, 66.
  • Proportions, canons of, 65f.;
    • in Egyptian art, 67;
    • Fritsch on, of body, 67;
    • Kalkmann on, of face, 67.
  • Prose writers, statues at Olympia, 285.
  • Protogenes, athlete painted by, 29.
  • Protolaos, statue at Olympia, 179, 352.
  • Prytaneion, the, in Athens, victors eat at public expense at, 32;
  • Psammetichos, tyrant of Corinth, 17.
  • Pseudo-Andokides, 363.
  • Pseudo-Plutarch, on statue of Isokrates at Athens, 24 and note 11, 27 and note 4, 281, 169;
  • head-type of, 77;
  • influence on the Agias, 291;
  • intense expression of, 307;
  • Kallistratos on, 309;
  • knowledge of, recently augmented, 286;
  • as master of expression of passion, 309;
  • Philandridas head wrongly ascribed to, 293;
  • Skopas and boy athlete head from Sparta, 305;
  • Skopas and Lysippos compared, 311f., 315;
  • style of, from Tegea heads, 306.
  • Skripou, convent of, 334.
  • Skyllis, sculptor, 122, 334.
    • See also Dipoinos.
  • Skyros, 18.
  • Slings for diskoi, on r.-f. vase, 164.
  • Smikythos; see Mikythos. Smile, in archaic sculpture, 100, 126.
  • Smith, A. H., on Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo statue type, 89, 90;
    • on athlete statue from Palazzo Farnese, Rome, in British Museum, 293.
  • Snail-volute, hair technique, 53.
  • Snatcher, the, from East gable, temple of Aegina, 125.
  • Sodamas, statue at Olympia, 354.
  • Sogliano, A., on boxer statue from Sorrento, 243.
  • Sokrates, philosopher, condemns “mimetic” arts, 58;
    • on physical development of runners and boxers, 59;
    • visit of, to sculptor Kleito, 59.
  • Sokrates, victor; see Sosikrates. Solon, assigns money prizes to Olympic and Isthmian victors, 25, 32.
  • Solos, throwing of, in Iliad, 8;
    • as type of diskos, 218.
  • SomzÉe Collection, athlete from the, 176, 251.
  • Songs, in honor of victors, 34.
  • Sophios, statue at Olympia, 299, 342.
  • Sophokles, Trachiniae of, 318.
  • Sorrento, statue of boxer from, by Koblanos, 242.
  • Sosikrates (or Sokrates), victor statue of, at Olympia, 200, 344.
  • Sostratos, dates of Olympic victories of, 300;
    • inscribed base from statue, at Delphi, 249;
    • statue at Olympia, 55;
    • surnamed ????????????, 248, 249.
  • Sotades, Olympic victor, bribed and exiled, 33.
  • Southeast Building, the, at Olympia, 344.
  • Sparring, preliminary, called ???????????? in boxing and pankration, 248 and note 4;
    • depicted on Ficoroni cista in Rome, 243;
    • depicted on Peter cista in Rome, 243;
    • as motive of boxer statues, 243;
    • as motive of statuette of boxer in Vatican, 243;
    • as motive of marble torso in Berlin, 243;
    • preliminary in pankration, 248;
    • called ?????????? (to shadow-fight), in boxing, 342.
    • Symmetry, in Greek art, 65, 66;
      • Pliny and Vitruvius on, 66.
    • Symplegma, group representing a, by Kephisodotos, 252.
    • Symposium, of Xenophon, 59.
    • Syracuse, coins of, representing Nike with tablet, 182;
      • funeral games at, in honor of Timoleon, 11;
      • Hiero and Gelo, kings of, 257.
    • Tainia, or fillet, as victor attribute, 148f. Tanagra, ephebe chosen at, for his beauty, 57;
      • grave-stele from, 72.
    • Tarentum (Taras), captured by Q. Fabius Maximus, 253;
      • coins of, showing apobates horse-racers, 282.
    • Tarsos, athlete head from, 168.
    • Tegea, excavations at temple of Athena at, 306;
      • heads from gable of temple at, 306;
      • heads from, compared with small frieze from Mausoleion, 275;
      • heads from, compared with boy athlete head from Sparta, 305;
      • torso of the Amazon from, 306.
    • Teisikrates, chariot victor, at Delphi, 268.
    • Teisikrates, pancratiast, inscribed base of statue of, from Delphi, 249.
    • Teisikrates, Theban sculptor, 368.
    • Tektaios, sculptor, 122, 304, 334, 335.
      • See also Angelion.
    • Telekles, sculptor, 330, 334.
      • See also Rhoikos and Theodoros.
    • Telemachos, base of statue at Olympia, 346, 348, 355;
    • Telephos, battle with Achilles, in Tegea pediment, 306;
      • in group, on small frieze from Pergamon, 253;
      • in group, in Vatican, 95.
    • Telesikrates, hoplite victor, statue at Delphi, 26, 162.
    • Tellon, base of statue at Olympia, 240, 345;
      • statue at Olympia, 31, 352.
    • Temessa, Black Spirit of, 35.
    • Tempe, vale of, as home of laurel, 21.
    • Temple, spoken of as pro persona, 299.
    • Tenea, “Apollo” of, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 127, 327, 336;
      • “Apollo” of, as runner, 148;
      • necropolis of, 248;
      • wrestling and boxing in pankration, 247;
      • wrestling and pankration contrasted, 246.
    • Wunderer, C., on the Seated Boxer of Museo delle Terme, 147.
    • Xanten, bronze statue of boy found in Rhine near, 276.
    • Xanthos, ChimÆra tomb at, 271.
    • Xenodamos, statue at Antikythera, 369.
    • Xenodikos, statue at Olympia, 279, 345.
    • Xenokles, base of statue at Olympia, 234, 344;
      • copies of statue of, 228, 234;
      • motive of statue of, 138, 139;
      • statue at Olympia, by Polykleitos the Younger, 118.
    • Xenokrates, of Akragas, chariot victor at Delphi, 267.
    • Xenokrates, sculptor, 61.
    • Xenombrotos, base of statue at Olympia, 345;
      • base of second statue at Olympia, 355;
      • portrait statue of, at Olympia, 54;
      • statue at Olympia, by Philotimos, 122, 264, 279;
      • two monuments of, at Olympia, 29.
    • Xenophanes, philosopher, on dangerous character of pankration, 246;
      • on painful character of boxing, 235;
      • protest of, against reverencing victors, 36.
    • Xenophon, historian, on athletics, 58, 59;
      • Symposium of, 59.
    • Xenophon, of Aigion, statue at Olympia, 120, 343.
    • Xerxes, carries off the Tyrannicides to Susa, 173;
      • sacks Akropolis, 271.
    • Xoana (?????), Daidalian, 328.
    • Youth, bronze head of, from Akropolis, 114;
      • bronze head of, from Herculaneum, 95;
      • bronze statue of, found in sea off Antikythera, 80f., 82f.;
      • Polykleitan statue of, crowning himself, 155;
      • youth with tablet, on Munich vase, 182.
    • Zanes, statues of Zeus, so-called, near entrance to Stadion, at Olympia, 33, 34.
    • Zenobios, 182.
    • Zeus, contestants at Olympia sacrifice to, 11;

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