| Chapter I. |
| PAGE |
| Early Greek Games and Prizes | 1-42 |
| Sports in Crete | 1 |
| Athletics in Homer | 7 |
| Origin of Greek Games in the Cult of the Dead | 9 |
| Early History of the Four National Games | 14 |
| Early Prizes for Athletes | 18 |
| Dedication of Athlete Prizes | 21 |
| Dedication of Statues at Olympia and Elsewhere | 24 |
| Honors Paid to Victors by their Native Cities | 32 |
| Votive Character of Victor Dedications | 37 |
| Miscellaneous Memorials to Victors | 40 |
| Honorary Statues | 41 |
| Chapter II. |
| General Characteristics of Victor Statues at Olympia | 43-98 |
| Size of Victor Statues | 45 |
| Nudity of Victor Statues | 47 |
| The Athletic Hair-fashion | 50 |
| Iconic and Aniconic Statues | 54 |
| Portrait Statues | 55 |
| Aniconic Statues | 58 |
| Aesthetic Judgments of Classical Writers | 58 |
| Greek Originals of Victor Statues | 62 |
| Canons of Proportion | 65 |
| Assimilation of Olympic Victor Statues to Types of Gods and Heroes | 71 |
| Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Hermes | 75 |
| Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Apollo | 88 |
| Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Herakles | 93 |
| Athletes Represented as the Dioskouroi | 96 |
| Chapter III. |
| Victor Statues Represented at Rest | 99-172 |
| The Apollo Type | 100 |
| The Affiliated Schools of Argos and Sikyon | 109 |
| The School of Argos | 109 |
| The School of Sikyon | 118 |
| Aeginetan Sculptors | 122 |
| Attic Sculptors | 126 |
| General Motives of Statues at Rest | 130 |
| Adoration and Prayer | 130 |
| Anointing | 133 |
| Oil-scraping | 135 |
| Libation-pouring | 138 |
| Resting after the Contest | 144 |
| Attributes of Victor Statues | 147 |
| Primary Attributes of Victor Statues | 148 |
| The Victor Fillet | 148 |
| Fillet-binders | 150 |
| The Crown of Wild Olive | 155 |
| The Palm-branch | 160 |
| Secondary Attributes of Victor Statues | 161 |
| Hoplitodromoi | 161 |
| Pentathletes | 164 |
| Boxers | 165 |
| Wrestlers | 165 |
| Caps for Boxers, Pancratiasts, and Wrestlers | 165 |
| The Swollen Ear | 167 |
| Chapter IV. |
| Victor Statues Represented in Motion | 173-256 |
| The Tyrannicides | 173 |
| Antiquity of Motion Statues in Greece | 176 |
| Pythagoras and Myron | 178 |
| Motion Statues representing Victors in Various Contests | 188 |
| Runners: Stadiodromoi, Diaulodromoi, Dolichodromoi | 190 |
| The Statue of the Runner Ladas | 196 |
| Statues of Boy Runners | 200 |
| Hoplitodromoi | 203 |
| Pentathletes | 210 |
| Jumpers | 214 |
| Diskoboloi | 218 |
| Akontistai | 222 |
| Wrestlers | 228 |
| Boxers | 234 |
| Pancratiasts | 246 |
| Chapter V. |
| Monuments of Hippodrome and Musical Victors | 257-285 |
| Programme of Hippodrome Events | 259 |
| Representations of the Chariot-race | 262 |
| Chariot-groups at Olympia | 264 |
| Remains of Chariot-groups | 269 |
| The Apobates Chariot-race | 272 |
| Statues of Charioteers | 274 |
| Dedications of Victors in the Horse-race at Olympia and Elsewhere | 278 |
| Monuments Illustrating the Horse-race | 280 |
| The Apobates Horse-race | 282 |
| Dedications of Musical Victors at Olympia and Elsewhere | 283 |
| Chapter VI. |
| Two Marble Heads from Victor Statues | 286-320 |
| The Group of Daochos at Delphi, and Lysippos | 286 |
| The Apoxyomenos of the Vatican, and Lysippos | 288 |
| The Agios and the Apoxyomenos compared, and the Style of Lysippos | 289 |
| The Head from Olympia | 293 |
| The Olympia Head and that of the Agias | 294 |
| Identification of the Olympia Head | 298 |
| The Dates of Philandridas and Lysippos | 300 |
| Lysippos as a Worker in Marble, and Statue “Doubles” | 302 |
| The Head of a Statue of a Boy from Sparta, and the Art of Skopas | 303 |
| Comparison of the Tegea Heads and the Head from Sparta | 308 |
| The Styles of Skopas and Lysippos Compared | 311 |
| The Sparta Head Compared with that of the Philandridas | 316 |
| The Sparta Head an Eclectic Work and an Example of Assimilation | 318 |
| Chapter VII. |
| The Materials of Olympic Victor Monuments, and the Oldest-dated Victor Statue | 321-338 |
| The Case for Bronze | 321 |
| The Case for Stone | 323 |
| The Statue of Arrhachion at Phigalia | 326 |
| Egyptian Influence on Early Greek Sculpture | 328 |
| Early Victor Statues and the “Apollo” Type | 334 |
| Chapter VIII. |
| Positions of Victor Statues in the Altis; Olympic Victor Monuments Erected Outside Olympia; Statistics of Olympic Victor Statuaries | 339-375 |
| Statues Mentioned by Pausanias | 339 |
| The First Ephodos of Pausanias | 341 |
| The Second Ephodos of Pausanias | 348 |
| Summary of Results | 352 |
| Statues not Mentioned by Pausanias, but known from Recovered Bases | 353 |
| Olympic Victor Monuments Erected Outside Olympia | 361 |
| Summary of Results | 374 |
| Statistics of Olympic Victor Statuaries | 375 |
