Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    regular portrait statues, they were however designed to keep iiwnemory the bodily energy and skill of the athletes; they 3 often bore reference also by posture and action to. the peculiar art of the combatant. In these anathemes the horse accom- panied the human figure. 1. Paus. vi, 18, 6 mentions as the first athletes consecrated at Olympia: Praxidamas of ^gina, 01. 58 (of cypress wood), Rhexibius of Opus, 01. 61 (of fig-tree). Eutelidas' statue therefore (Pans, vi, 15, 4) was cer- tainly later than the 58th 01. However, the stiff antique statue of Arra- chion of Phigalia, who was crowned at Olympia when dead, was older (01. 53). The statue of the great Milo which was executed by Dameas for Olympia about the 65th 01. was still very antique, with close feet and very stiffly formed hand, (Philostr. ApoU. Tyan. iv, 28), from whose attitude the story in Pans, vi, 14, 2 at the end, seems to have arisen. 2. Olympiae omnium qui vicissent statuas dicari mos erat. Eorum vero qui ter ibi superavissent, ex membris ipsanun similitudine expressa, quas iconicas vocant, Plin. xxxiv, 9. 3. Glaucus the Carystian, distinguished for his dexterity in the manoeuvres of boxing, was represented preluding (aKicc/icoix^t/) by Glau- cias of jEgina, Paus. vi, 10, 1. Diagoras and his family raised the right hand in prayer, and held the left ready for boxing and the pancra- tion. Schol. Pind. 0. 7, in. and comp. Nepos Chabrias 1 (setting aside the anachronism. Xenoph. Memor. iii, 10. On ft,iu, 'i(pn, u KT^iiruv,. dXho'tovg (cf. Symp. 2, 17) voisl; ^^o/^el; r£ x,xl TreO^xiarxs x-oti ttvktccs.. x,oil. 88. Excepting these victors in sacred games, statues of individuals were still very rare during this period; their con- secration always presupposes entirely particular occasions ^. the ^aXxovv Tiva (Srridai was at first an almost Tj^utKTi ri/j^T}. This holds true of the statues of the Argives Cleobis and Biton at Delphi, Herod, i, 31, about the 50th 01.; [of the Bathyllus of Puiycrates consecrated in Samos, §. 96. No. 17, if the words qua nihil videor eflfectius cognovisse, did not raise a suspicion that a false inscription was given to a charming and spirited brazen statue in the Heraeon, executed in later times] ; of the patriots Harmodius and Aristogeiton of Athens (the for- mer were made by Antenor, 67, 4, the latter by Critics, 01. 75, 4. Bockh, C. I. ii. p. 320. 340. Stackelberg Graber, Vign. S. 33. Welcker Rhein. Mus. iv. s. 472. M. Hunter, tab. 9. n. 4 [R. Rochette sur le torse du Belve- dere, p. 29. Suppl. au Catal. des Artistes, p. 204.]; of the Phocian gene- rals in the dreadful war against the ThessaUans, works of Aristomedon, about 01. 74. Paus. x, 1, 4; also of the eI'S^uAss of the princes of Sparta who fell in battle, Herod, vi, 58. The statue of Hipponax (§. 82) wag anything but an honorary statue, comp. §. 420, 1. Kohler iiber die Ehre der Bildsaulen, Schriften der Munchner Akademie Bd. vi. s. 67. Hirt, Schr. der Berl. Akad. 1814—15. Hist. CI. s. 6. Bockh, C. I. i. p. 18 sq. 872 sq. (on the Sigajan Inscription).