50 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VICTOR STATUES AT OLYMPIA. 
down and wore a tunic which reached to just above the knees, 
leaving the right shoulder bare to the breast.. That the statue rep- 
resents a girl runner seems certain,! but that-it can be. referred 
to one of the Olympic girl victresses is doubtful. The description of 
Pausanias fits it in many respects, except that the chiton of the 
statue 1s too short, and he does not mention the girdle just below the 
bosom. Furthermore, he does not mention statues of girl victresses, 
but only pictures. Nothing can be argued from the palm-branch on 
the tree-stump, except that the Roman copyist thought it the statue 
of a victress. It does not necessarily refer to a victress at Olympia, 
for Pausanias elsewhere says that the palm-branch was given at many 
contests.? The statue represents a young girl leaning forward awaiting 
the signal to start,’ but it is impossible to say to what games we should 
refer it. There were girls’ contests in and out of Greece—such as at 
the Dionysia in Sparta‘ and in her colony Kyrene.> Such games were 
also held in the stadion of Domitian at Rome.’ In fact the Palatine 
estate of the Barberini, from whom the Vatican acquired the statue, 
embraced the area of the old stadion of Domitian on the Palatine. 
It is probably of Doric workmanship, as it certainly represents a Dorian 
victress, though not necessarily by a Peloponnesian sculptor.’ 
THE ATHLETIC HAIR-FASHION. 
The assumption long held that short hair was always characteristic 
of the athlete is incorrect. It 1s controverted equally by literary — 
evidence and by the monuments. The Homeric Greek took pride in 
‘However, B. Schroeder believes that it is merely a victorious danseuse, and gives’ several 
examples of dancers from vase-paintings and the lesser arts: R. M., XXIV, 1909, pp. 109 ff. 
(figs. 1-3). Inalloftheselively motionis expressed and the free foot is raised high from the ground. 
When the curious little plat under the statue’s right foot (perhaps intended to represent the 
starting-stone at the stadion) is removed, the position of the statue does not fit the dance; see 
Bulle, p. 304, for discussion of this starting- stone. 
2VITI, 48.2; cf. Plut., Quaest. conviv., VIII, 4, I, (p. 982). 
3Bulle compares it with the Tu ehineee hoplite-runner (Fig. 42) ready to start, though the 
quieter pose of the Vatican statue befits a girl rather than the impetuous energy of the man. 
4On the Acoviciades, see P., III, 13.7; Hesychios, s.v.; cf. Theokr., XVIII, 22; Plut., Lycurgus, 14; 
Pauly-Wissowa, s. v. agones, I, p. 847; Reisch, p. 46, n. 4.. Pauly-Wissowa, s. 9. xtrwv (III, 2, p, 
2314) shows that the use of the chiton closed on one side was a Dorian, and especially a Spartan. 
custom. 
5On the running race at Kyrene, cf. Boeckh, Explic. ad Pind., Pyth., 1X, p. 328. Plato, in his 
de Leg, VIII, 833, D,.E, ordained for girls the three running races (ardé.or, diavdAos, and dé txos); 
the youngest girls should run nude, the others (from 13 to 18) suitably dressed. 
6Suet., Domitian, 4; Dio Cassius, LXVII, 8. 
7Arndt believes it is Myronian in character: B. B., text to 521. | 
8See Waldstein, /. H. S., I, 1880, pp. 170 f. On the style of wearing the hair in Greece, see the 
following works: K. O. Mueller, Handbuch d. Archaeol. d. Kunst*, pp. 474 f; Bluemner, Leben u. 
Sitten der Griechen, I, pp. 76 f.; Home Life of the Ancient Greeks (transl. of preceding, by A. Zim- 
mern), 1893, pp. 64 f; Dar.—Sagl., ». v. coma (Pottier), I, 2, pp. 1355 f.; Pauly-Wissowa, VII, 2, 
pp. 2109 ff. (Bremer); Baum., I, pp. 615 f; Guhl-Koner-Engelmann, Das Leben d. Gr. u. Roem.®, 
1893, pp. 297 f; Amelung, Gewandung d. Gr. u. Roem., 1903; Helbig, Atti della R. Accad. det 
Lincet, Ser. III, vol. V., pp. 1 f. (for the Homeric age). 
