Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art / Walter Woodburn Hyde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871-1966, author.

Series:

Historical Manuscripts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Greece.

Sports.

Sculpture, Greek.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

The purpose of the present work is to study what is known of one of the most important genres of Greek sculpture--the monuments erected at Olympia and elsewhere in the Greek world in honor of victorious athletes at the Olympic games. Since only meagre remnants of these monuments have survived, the work is in the main concerned with the attempt to reconstruct their various types and poses.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface*

The Most Common Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Chapter 1

Early Greek Games and Prizes

Plate 1 and Figures 1 and 2

Sports in Crete

Athletics in Homer

Origin of Greek Games in the Cult of the Dead

Early History of the Four National Games

Early Prizes for Athletes

Dedication of Athlete Prizes

Dedication of Statues at Olympia and Elsewhere

Honors Paid to Victors by Their Native Cities

Votive Character of Victor Dedications

Miscellaneous Memorials to Victors

Honorary Statues

Chapter 2

General Characteristics of Victor Statues at Olympia

Plates 2-7 and Figures 3-8

Size of Victor Statues

Nudity of Victor Statues

The Athletic Hair-Fashion

Iconic and Aniconic Statues

Portrait Statues

Aniconic Statues

Æsthetic Judgments of Classical Writers

Greek Originals of Victor Statues

Canons of Proportion

Assimilation of Olympic Victor Statues to Types of Gods and Heroes

Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Hermes

Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Apollo

Athlete Statues Assimilated to Types of Herakles

Athletes Represented as the Dioskouroi

Chapter 3

Victor Statues Represented at Rest

Plates 8-21 and Figures 9-31

The Apollo Type

The Affiliated Schools of Argos and Sikyon

The School of Argos

The School of Sikyon

Æginetan Sculptors

Attic Sculptors

General Motives of Statues at Rest

Adoration and Prayer

Anointing

Oil-Scraping

Libation-Pouring

Resting after the Contest

Attributes of Victor Statues

Primary Attributes of Victor Statues

The Victor Fillet

Fillet-Binders

The Crown of Wild Olive

The Palm-Branch

Secondary Attributes of Victor Statues

Hoplitodromoi

Pentathletes

Boxers

Wrestlers

Caps for Boxers, Pancratiasts, and Wrestlers.

The Swollen Ear

Chapter 4

Victor Statues Represented in Motion

Plates 22-25 and Figures 32-62

The Tyrannicides

Antiquity of Motion Statues in Greece

Pythagoras and Myron

Motion Statues Representing Victors in Various Contests

Runners: Stadiodromoi, Diaulodromoi, Dolichodromoi

The Statue of the Runner Ladas

Statues of Boy Runners

Jumpers

Diskoboloi

Akontistai

Pancratiasts

Chapter 5

Monuments of Hippodrome and Musical Victors

Plates 26-27 and Figures 63-67

Programme of Hippodrome Events

Representations of the Chariot-Race

Chariot-Groups at Olympia

Remains of Chariot-Groups

The Apobates Chariot-Race

Statues of Charioteers

Dedications of Victors in the Horse-Race at Olympia and Elsewhere

Monuments Illustrating the Horse-Race

The Apobates Horse-Race

Dedications of Musical Victors at Olympia and Elsewhere

Chapter 6

Two Marble Heads from Victor Statues

Plates 28-30 and Figures 68-77

The Group of Daochos at Delphi, and Lysippos

The Apoxyomenos of the Vatican, and Lysippos

The Agias and the Apoxyomenos Compared, and the Style of Lysippos

The Head from Olympia

The Olympia Head and That of the Agias

Identification of the Olympia Head

The Dates of Philandridas and Lysippos

Lysippos as a Worker in Marble, and Statue "Doubles"

Head of a Statue of a Boy From Sparta, and the Art of Skopas

Comparison of the Tegea Heads and the Head from Sparta

The Styles of Skopas and Lysippos Compared

The Sparta Head Compared with That of the Philandridas

The Sparta Head an Eclectic Work and an Example of Assimilation

Chapter 7

The Materials of Olympic Victor Monuments, and the Oldest Dated Victor Statue

Figures 78-80

The Case for Bronze

The Case for Stone.

The Statue of Arrhachion at Phigalia

Egyptian Influence on Early Greek Sculpture

Early Victor Statues and the "Apollo" Type

Chapter 8

Positions of Victor Statues in the Altis

Olympic Victor Monuments Erected Outside Olympia

Statistics of Olympic Victor Statuaries

Plans A and B

Statues Mentioned by Pausanias

The First Ephodos of Pausanias

The Second Ephodos of Pausanias

Summary of Results

Statues Not Mentioned by Pausanias, but Known from Recovered Bases

Index

Blank Page.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5361-9656-8

OCLC:

1250089907