24 EARLY GREEK GAMES AND PRIZES. 
of the Spartan chariot victor Lykinos by Myron,! says that one of 
the horses which the victor brought to Olympia was not allowed to 
enter the foal-race, and therefore was entered in the horse-race. This 
story was probably told Pausanias by the Olympia guides and may 
have arisen from the smallness of one of the horses in the monument.’ 
The sculptors Kalamis,? Kanachos,* and Hegias® are known to have 
made groups representing horse-victors, and Pliny derives the whole 
genre of equestrian monuments from the Greeks.® Great numbers of 
small figures of horses and riders have been excavated at Olympia‘ 
and elsewhere.’ Equestrian groups of various kinds were also known 
outside Olympia. Thus Arkesilas IV of Kyrene offered a chariot model 
~ at Delphi for a victory in 466 B. C;° the base found on the Akropolis 
of Athens and inscribed with the name Onatas probably upheld such 
a group;!° the equestrian statue of Isokrates on the Akropolis was 
also probably a dedication for a victory in horse-racing.!! 
; ICATION OF STATUES AT OLYMPIA AND ELSEWHERE. 
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( Not only did equestrian contests and the pentathlon give the victor 
an opportunity to represent the means by which he gained his prize, 
but any victorious athlete could set up a statue of himself in his own 
honor, which might either represent him in the characteristic attitude 
of his contest (perhaps with its distinguishing attributes) or might be a 
simple monument showing neither action nor attribute. ) This brings 
us to the main subject of the present work—the discussion of the 
, different types of victor statues at Olympia. 


Of all the national games of Hellas, our knowledge of Olympia is 
Rerices both because of the detailed account of its monuments by 
Peete who visited Elis in 173 A.D., and because of the systematic 
excavation of the Altis by the German government in the seventies 
of the last century. We shall not be concerned, except incidentally, 
with monuments set up at the other national games, which are known 
to us in no such degree as those of Olympia. ‘The interest of Pau- 
sanias in Delphi was almost entirely of a religious nature, and the lesser 
renown of both Nemea and the Isthmus caused him to treat their topog- 
raphy and monumentsinamost summarymanner. Thoughthe Pythia 
as a festival were second only to the Olympia, as an athletic meet 

1VJ, 2.1-2; he won in the heavy-armed race and in charioteering in Ols. (?) 83, 84, (=448, aa 
B. C.): Hyde, 12; Foerster, 211a; Foerster believes that the two statues represented Lykinos and 
his charioteer, and that they stood’in the chariot, which is not mentioned by Pausanias. 
So Foerster, /. c.; see also Robert, O. S., p. 176; Rutgers, p. 144; and Klein, Archaeol.-epigr. 
Mitt. aus Oesterr.-Ungarn, VII, 1883, p. 70. For an improbable view, see Brunn, I, p. 479. 
rs eA 4Pliny, H. N., XXIV, 75. 5Ibid., XXXIV, 78. SI bid.,. XXXIV, 19. 
Uren v. Ol., Tafelbd., Pl. XV, 255-7; XVI, 258; Teaba: ., p. 41; terra-cotta parse ibid., 
XVII, 267-75; Tencbe: . pp. 43-4. 
8See Rouse, p. 167. 9Pindar, Pyth., V, 34 f. - 
10C. I. A., IV, 2, p. 89, 373%; cf. Arch. Eph., 1887, p. 146 Gnscribed base reproduced). 
Mentioned by the pseudo-Plutarch, Vit. X Orat., [V (Isokrates), 42, Pp. 839 c. 
