VI OLYMPIC VICTOR MONUMENTS. 
hand knowledge of the monuments and for its brilliant inductions, even 
if the latter at times are carried too far. 
Perhaps my greatest debt has been to the excellent volume entitled 
Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals, by E. Norman Gardiner, M. A., a 
scholar whose practical knowledge of modern athletic sports and wide 
familiarity with the ancient source material, both literary and monu- 
mental, has well fitted him to deal afresh with the subject treated so 
learnedly over three quarters of a century ago in Krause’s Die Gym- 
nastik und Agontstik der Hellenen. J have also constantly drawn upon 
Gardiner’s collection of vase-paintings which illustrate athletic scenes. 
I should also note here several other works which have been of 
great assistance in writing this book, such as Juethner’s Ueber antike 
Turngeraethe and edition of Philostratos’ de Arte gymnastica, Reisch’s 
Griechische Weithgeschenke, Rouse’s Greek Votive Offerings, and Foers- 
ter’s Die Sieger in den Olympischen Spielen. ‘The chronological list of 
victors in the latter compilation was, in large part, the foundation of 
my earlier work de olympionicarum Statuts. 
I have also received most valuable help from the standard catalogues 
of modern museums, ¢. g., those by Amelung, Dickins, Helbig, Kab- 
badias, Lechat, Richter, de Ridder, Stais, Svoronos, and especially the 
admirable ones of the classical collections in the British Museum. I 
regret that, owing to the recent war, some of the latest catalogues, those 
especially of the smaller foreign museums, have not been available. 
For illustrative matter, | have made no effort to reproduce merely 
striking works of art, but have, for the most part, presented well- 
known works which readily illustrate the problems treated in the 
text. I have availed myself of collections of photographs kindly placed 
at my disposal by Professors Herbert E. Everett of the School of Fine 
Arts of the University of Pennsylvania, D. M. Robinson of the Johns 
Hopkins University, A. S. Cooley of the Moravian College at Bethle- 
hem, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Mary H. Swindler of Bryn Mawr College. 
The various collections of plates and the books and journals from which 
I have taken illustrations are duly noted in the List of Illustrations. 
In addition, I wish to thank the following corporations and indi- 
viduals for permission to reproduce plates and text-cuts from the works 
cited: the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 
of London, for the use of four plates appearing in the Journal of 
Hellenic Studies (Figs. 44, 54, 55, and 59); the Trustees of the British 
Museum in London for seven plates from Marbles and Bronzes in the 
British Museum (Pls. 7A, 17,19; Figs. 14, 28, 31, and 35); Professor E. 
A. Gardiner and his publishers, Duckworth and Co., of London, for 
two plates from Six Greek Sculptors (Pl. 30; Fig. 71); Mr. H. R. Hall, of 
the British Museum, and his publisher, Philip Lee Warner, of London, 
for one from Aegean Archeology (Fig. 1); Professor Allan Marquand, of 
Princeton University, for one text-cut from the American Journal of 
