DEDICATION OF STATUES AT OLYMPIA AND ELSEWHERE. Bi 
Promachos of Pellene had two statues erected to him by his fellow citi- 
zens, one at Olympia, the other in Pellene.! We know of three state 
dedications of statues at Olympia from inscriptions, those of Aristo- 
phon of Athens,” of Epitherses of Erythrai,*? and of Polyxenos by 
the people of Zakynthos.*' Lichas of Sparta, at a date when the 
Spartans were excluded from the games, entered his chariot in the 
name of the Theban people, and Pausanias says that his victory was so 
entered on the Elean register.©> We learn from the Oxyrhynchus Papy- 
rus that the public horse of the Argives won at Olympia in Ol. 75 
(=480 B.C.) and the public chariot in Ol. 77 (=472 B.C.).6 In these 
latter two cases the public was directly interested, and had there 
been monuments erected to commemorate the victories they would 
naturally have been set up by the state. 
‘has been wrongly assumed that monuments of boy victors were 
dedicated in the name of their parents or relatives.’ On the con- 
trary, (we have examples dating_back to the fifth century B. C. of boys 
setting up statues at Olympia. /[hus the inscription from the base of 
the statue of Tellon, who won in the boys’ boxing match in Ol. 77(=472 
B. C.), states that he dedicated his own statue.* Pausanias says that 
the Eleans allowed the boy wrestler Kratinos from Aigira to erect a 
statue of his trainer. Of course the boy might need assistance in the 
undertaking, but this again was no concern of the Elean officials, who 
granted the privilege to the victor and not to his relatives. Usually 
the statue of a victor was erected soon after the victory.) We have 
some examples of the statue being erected immediately after the vic- 
tory, especially in the case of men victors. “Thus Pausanias says that 
the victor Eubotas of Kyrene, in consequence of a Libyan oracle fore- 
telling his victory in the foot-race, had his statue made before coming 
to Olympia and erected it ‘“‘the very day on which he was proclaimed 
victor.’ !° The famous Milo of Kroton spectacularly carried his statue 
into the Altis on his back before he entered the contest.!! ‘There are 

1For the one at Olympia, see P., VI, 8.5; for the one at Pellene, id., VII, 27.5; he won in Ol. 94 
(=396 B. C.): Hyde, 81; Foerster, 286. Similarly, Hiero II, King of Syracuse, had two statues 
honoris causa at Olympia set up by his fellow citizens: P., VI, 15. 6; Hyde, 147a. 
2Inschr. v. Ol., 169; cf. P., VI, 13.11; he won the pankration some time between Ols. (?) 115 and 
130 (=320 and 260 B. C.): Hyde, 123; Foerster, 758 (undated). 
3Inschr. v. Ol., 186; cf. P., VI, 15.6; he won twice in boxing between Ols. (?) 144 and 147 (= 204 
and 192 B. C.): Hyde, 147; Foerster, 510 and 512. 
4Inschr. v. Ol., 224; he won the boys’ wrestling match in Roman days: Foerster, 823. 
5P., VI, 2.2-3; Thukydides, V, 49-50; he won in Ol. 90 (=420 B.C.): Hyde, 14; Foer- 
ster, 270. 
6Vol. II, p. 222. 
7So Scherer, p. 5. His evidence is from inscriptions of imperial days (e. g., Inschr. v. Ol., 218, 
223, 227), when the dedicatory formula differed somewhat from that of earlier times. 
8Inschr. v. Ol., 147-8; cf. P., VI, 10.9; Oxy. Pap.; Hyde, 102; Foerster, 237. 
°VI, 3.6. He won sometime between Ols. (?) 120 and 130 (=300 and 260 B. C.): Hyde, 27; 
Foerster, 433. 
10VT, 8.3. He won the stade-race and the chariot-race in Ols. 93 and 104 (= 408 and 364 B. C.) 
respectively: Afr.; Hyde, 75; Foerster, 277, 350. 
P,, VI, 14.6; he won in wrestling matches six times in Ol. (?) 61, and in Ols. 62, 63, 64, 65, 
66 (=536-516 B. C.): Hyde, 128; Foerster, 116, 122, 126, 131, 136, 141. 
