DEDICATION OF STATUES AT OLYMPIA AND ELSEWHERE. 27 
Akropolis, we know of the statues of the hoplite runner Epicharinos,} 
of the pancratiast Hermolykos,? of a helmeted man by the sculptor 
Kleoitas,’ of a mais ke\nrifwy representing Isokrates;‘in the Prytaneion, 
of the statue of the pancratiast Autolykos.' Lykourgos, the rhetor, men- 
tions victor statues in the agora of Athens. Some of these Athenian 
statues may have been those of Olympic victors;’ and of victors cer- 
tainly Olympic we know of the statues of Kallias the pancratiast,® of 
the charioteer Hermokrates,® and of the bronze mares of Kimon.!® Of 
the statues of Nemean victors at Athens we know of that of Hegestratos, 
victor in an unknown contest.!! Of Isthmian victors there we know of 
that of the pancratiast Diophanes,” and of other examples. We have 
inscriptional record of the statues at Athens of a boy victor at the 
Panathenaia and the Thargelia in chariot-racing, of a victor at the 
Pythia, Isthmia, Nemea, and the Panathenaia,” of one at the Nemea 
and Herakleia at Thebes,'® of one at the Eleusinia,!” of one at the 
Panathenaia and Dionysia,'® and of others at several games.!° 
oe of a statue in the Altis at Olympia was an honor which 
(: e Elean officers in charge of the games”® gave to victors to glorify 
their victory.2! Pliny, in a well-known passage of the Historia Natura- 
lis, says it was customary for all victors to set up statues, while Pau- 
sanias” says not all athletes did this, for “some of those who specially 
distinguished themselves in the games . . . . have had no statues.” 
This apparent contradiction in the statements of the two writers is to 
be explained, as Dittenberger™ and others have pointed out, on the 
ground that Pliny states the general privilege extended to the victor, 
while Pausanias states its practical working out, since the setting up 
of a statue was an undertaking which would be limited by the early ~ 
death, poverty, or some other disability « of the victorious athlerey Phe 
cost of making;transporting, and setting up a statue was considerable, 
and-very-often-a-vietor-must-have-been-too_poor to doit. In such a 
case he would often be contented to set up merely a statuetté or small 
pee i. 1.4... I, 376; I. G. B., 39. ABS 23510, 
#P.; I, 24.3; cf. Reisch, p..39. 4Pseudo-Plutarch, Vit. X Orat., already mentioned. 
bPit, 18.5 and 1X, 32.8; cf. Pliny, H. N., XXXIV, 79. 
6Contra Leocr., p. 51 (ed. Reiske, p. 176.) 7Cf. Furtwaengler, 4. M., V, 1880, pp. 27 f. 
8C. J. A., I, 419; he won in O1.77 (=472 B. C.): Oxy. Pap.; Hyde, 50; Foerster, 208. 
Sea thy 4, 1303. 
10Aelian, Var. Hist., 1X, 32. Reisch, p. 39, ascribes these to the monument of the older Kimon, 
12 and in chariot-racing three times at Olympia: Hdt., VI, 103; Plut., Cato Major, 5; Foerster, 
1 
-and 132. 
UG, I. A., II, 3, 1300. 127bid., 1301; cf. C. I. G., I, 233. 137 bid., 1305, 1312. 
M7 bid., 1302. 1bJbid., 1304. I bid., 1323. 
M7Tbid., 1313. 187 bid., 1314. 197 bid., 1318-20. 
20The ‘EdAavodixat, mentioned by P., V, 9. 4 f. and elsewhere; sometimes he calls them merely 
ot ’Hdelor: ¢. g., VI, 13.9. 
1. g. P., VI, 13.9, says that the Eleans allowed Pheidolas to dedicate a statue of his mare; 
in VI, 3.6, he says that they allowed the wrestler Kratinos to set-up a statue of his trainer. 
2X XXIV, 16. See infra, pp. 54 and 354. 23VT, 1.1. Al nschr. 0..0l., p. 236. 
