26 EARLY GREEK GAMES AND PRIZES. 
'“At all these three games victor monuments were set up, though in 
no such profusion as at Olympia. 
Of those set up at Delphi, Pausanias shows his disdain by these 
words: ‘‘Astothe athletes and musical competitors who have attracted 
no notice from the majority of mankind, I hold them hardly worthy 
of attention; and the athletes who have made themselves a name have 
already been set forth by me in my account of Elis.’”’! He mentions 
the statue of only one victor, that of Phayllos, who won at Delphi twice 
in the pentathlon and once inrunning. A score or more of inscriptions 
in honor of these men whom Pausanias treats so contemptuously have 
been recovered. Some of them record offerings dedicated for victories, 
though most of them record decrees passed by the Delphians, who voted 
the victors not only setae laurel, but seats of honor at the games 
and other privileges.’ | YWactor statues seem to have stood outside the 
sacred precinct-at Delphi and not within it, as at Olympia,)since Pau- 
sanias mentions the sanc ter mentioning the statue of Phayllos.* 
Other Greek and Romanwriters give us stray hintsof these statues. [hus, 
Pliny mentions a statue at Delphi of a pancratiastes by Pythagoras of 
Rhegion‘and saysthat Myron made Delphicos pentathlos, pancratiastas.° 
A scholion on Pindar® mentions the helmeted statue of the hoplite run- 
ner lelisikrates as standing in the precinct. Justin, in speaking of the 
Gallic invasion of Delphi, mentions statuasque cum quadrigis, quarum 
ingens copia procul visebatur, thus referring to large chariot-groups, 
which would be very sightly on the slope of the precinct.’ An idea of 
the beauty of such groups may be gathered from the remnant of one, 
the bronze Charioteer discovered by the French excavators, which is one 
of the most important archaistic sculptures from antiquity (Fig. 66).® 
\\ We know from the words of Pausanias’ that victor statues also stood 
SSE Cee and we should assume the same for Nemea, though 
in both places they must have been few in number. At the various 
local games it was customary for victors to erect statues of themselves. 
Thus we know of such dedications at the Boeotian games in [hebes,?° 
at the Didymaion,! and at the Lykaia in Arkadia. Many such 
victor statues decorated different localities of Athens. Thus, on the 

1X, 9.2 (Frazer’s transl.). 
2See Foucart and Wescher, Inscriptions recueillies a Delphes, 1863, no. 469; Haussoulier, B.C. H., 
VI, 1882, pp. 217 f:; Couve, zbid., XVIII, 1894, pp. 70-100. One is in honor of the Corinthian 
singer Aristonos, who composed a hymn to Apollo, found at Delphi: idid., XVII, 1893, pp. 
563 f. A Samian flutist, Satyros, gained a prize without contest and recited a choral ode called 
Dionysos in the stadion, and played an air from Euripides’ Bacchae on the lyre: ibid., XVII, 
pp. 84 ft. Native towns erected statues to musical victors: C. J. G., I., nos. 1719-20. One 
inscription records the rules to be observed by runners, who could not drink new wine, etc.: 
J. H.S., XVI, 1896, p. 343 and Berliner Philolog. Wochenschr., XVI, 1896, p. 831 (June 27); cf. 
Frazer, V, p.260. ‘The base of a statue of a boy wrestler has been found: 4. Z., XX XI, 1874, p. 57. 
3X, 9.2-3; on Phayllos, see Foerster, 794 (undated). 
47. N., XXXIV, 59. 5Tbid., §57. 6On Pyth., IX, Argum., Boeckh, p. 401 B. 
TX XIV, 7.10. 8To be discussed infra, in Ch. V. RS br 107, G. B., nos. 120, 133, 148. 
1¢C, J. G., II, 2888. 2P., VIiIT;.38:53 cf. Reisch,.p39,nde 
