Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.
- Karl Otfried Müller
- Date:
- 1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![drorai in. threes or fives in the same direction, the dolichodromi on tho contrary towards the left, Ambrosch Ann. d. Inst. v. p. 64. The race is represented here rather in a conventional manner than with truth to na- ture. The statue PCI. iii, 27. was perhaps rather raised to a female run- ner of Domitian's time (Dio Cass. Ixvii, 8.), than a Spartan woman. Leapers on vases, Tischb. iv, 43. M. Borb. iii, 13. Gerh. Ant. Bildw. 67. (with spring-weights and spring-poles, which others take for javelins). Gems, Tassie pi. 46, 7978. Caylus iii, 21, 4. Micali tv. 116, 16. On the iXT^gej Welcker Zeitschr. i. s. 238., and the spring with the lance §. 121. R. 2. Leaping through the rope, Grivaud Antiq. Gaul. pi. 23. Leaping over others, gem, Caylus iii, 86. Tassie tv. 46, 7980. Leaping over stakes with halteres, ibid. 46, 7978. The real dax.u'hux.l^uv, anuT^olioirt^siv, Epicharra. Discoboli: the one in the act of throwing by Myron §. 122. R. 3. comp. Nonnus xxxvii, 682 sqq. [in the Lansdowne coll. Clarac pi. 829. no. 2085 A., in the Brit. Mus. 859, 2194 b., in the Massimi pal. 863, 2194 a.]; the one preparing for the contest, also in several copies, PCI. iii, 26. Bouill. ii, 17.; Borgh. 7, 9. in the L. 704. Bouill. iii, 17, 5.; in Mr. Duncombe's coll., Yorkshire. One in England in Cavaceppi Stat. Ristaur. i, 42. Impr. d. Inst, iv, 69. On gems, Impr. d. Inst, ii, 87. Wall- painting, M. Borb. ix, 52. On vases generally stepping out, Tischb. i, 54. iv, 44. Maisonn. 25.; beginning the action of throwing, Gerhard Ant. Bildw. 68, 1. Victorious discobolus with all the ensigns of victory, gem, M. Flor. ii, 17, 2. On the pentathlon on the vases of Volci (represented by leaping, throwing the javelin, and the discus), Ambrosch. p. 84. The youths with mattocks, who figure at tho exercises of the pentathlon, for example Maisonn. 25., Festus s. v. rutrum tenentis, refer to the ^o^qoi of the crKocf^iLcci for the leapers (see Dissen ad. Pind. N. v, 20., they are some- what differently interpreted by Welcker Zeitschr. s. 257. Rhein. Mus. i. 8. 77.). Wrestlers dK-^oxeiQi/^oftsfoi on coins of Selge, Mionnet Descr. pi. 57, 3. 6., vases, Tischb. iv, 46., bas-reliefs, Guatt. 1785. p. liii. Vise. PCI. vi, 37. Bouill. iii, 46, 9. Groups of wrestlers in bronze, from a chariot, Gerhard Ant. Bildw. Tf. 119, 1—3. Boys wrestling, Pan above Impr. d. Inst, iv, 65. Wrestlers d la Antceus, Grivaud Antiq. Gaul. pi. 20. 21. Wrestling contest between a naked man and a woman (with girdle round the middle), on vases from Volci, Ambrosch p. 78. The statue of a wrestler of rather advanced age with powerful muscular development described by Christod. 228. Pancratiast-hoys in the celebrated symplegma at Florence, G. di Fir. St. 121.122. Maffei Race. 29. §. 126. R. 4. (not TraXot/arai, with whom throwing down decided, (comp. the wrestling of Bacchus and Ampe- lus in Nonnus x, 365 sqq.); but the pancratiasts wrestled chiefly on the ground.) A similar anaclinopale on the coins of Constantine, Pedrusi v, 26, 5. Polyclete's dTroTm^vt^uv, §. 120. R. 3. may be conceived from Stuart i. ch. 4. pi. 13. and iii. ch. 13. pi. 11. On other n-x.iif^a.Tot ■Tnx.Mi Ambrosch ibid. s. 76. Boxers, statues, Bouill. iii, 19, 2. 3. Csestuarius in the Gentili palace at Rome, Gerhard 68, 3.; in Dresden, 295. Aug. 109. (in green marble); torsos found on the Quirinal in 1739, described by Ficoroni. Arms, Ant. Ere. vi. p. 1. vign. Reliefs, L. 736. Clarac pi. 200.; PCI. V, 36., where they have the hair bound into a tuft, like the ' KyZiue^ §. 406. R. 2. Vases, Tischb. i, 55. 56. Monument of a csestus-fighter in Montf. iii, 168. according to Fabretti. Lampadedromia with saucer- shaped sockets for the torches, as on coins of Amphipolis (Mionnet, Dcscr. pi. 49, 6.), vase-painting, Tischb. ii, 26. iii, 48. [Dubois Voy. en](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2178016x_0627.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
