S8 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VICTOR STATUES AT OLYMPIA. 
appeared on bodies of the Doryphoros,' while other statues, showing 
the body of the Doryphoros draped with the chlamys,? and many 
torsos following the attitude and form of this statue, have the chlamys, 
which shows that they were intended for the god.* Hermes inthe Dory- 
phoros pose, in a bronze of the British Museum,? is probably intended 
for an athlete. Furtwaengler has shown’ that the old Argive schema 
of the boxer Aristion at Olympia by Polykleitos* was used in the 
master’s circle for statues of Hermes. ‘The best preserved example 
of a number of existing statues of this type is one in Lansdowne 
House, London,’ in the pose of the Aristion, holding an object—prob- 
ably a kerykeion—in the hand and a chlamys over the left shoulder. 
ATHLETE STATUES ASSIMILATED TO IYPES OF APOLLO. 
Apollo figures in mythology as an athlete. In the Iliad, at the 
opening of the boxing match between Epeios and Euryalos,® he is 
mentioned as the god of boxing, which refers, perhaps, to his presiding 
over the education of youths (kovporpddos) and to his gift of manly 
prowess. Pausanias records that he overcame Hermes in running and 
Ares in boxing.’ He gives these victories of the god as the reason why 
the flute played a Pythian air at the later pentathlon. Plutarch says 
that the Delphians sacrificed to Apollo the boxer (aztxrys), and the Cre- 
tans and Spartansto Apollo the runner (6pouatos).? Apollo’s fight with 
Herakles to wrest from the hero the stolen tripod of Delphi,!! which is 
the subject of many surviving works of art,’ is outside the realm of 
1, g., one in Paris, in the Cab. des Médailles, no. 3350; Clarac, 666 D, 1512 F. 
2E. g., E. von Sacken, Die ant. Bronzen des k. k. Muenz-und Antiken-Cabinetes in Wien, 1871, 
Pl. 10, 4; a bronze Mercury in Paris, in the Cab. des Méd., Coll. Oppermann (0.20 m. tall): Furtw., 
Mp., p. 233, fig. 94, and Mw., p. 428, fig. 64; bronze statuette of Mercury in the British Museum 
with chlamys over the left shoulder: Mp., p. 232, fig. 93; Mw., p. 427, fig. 63. 
IM a py 2515 Nos 4B. M. Bronzes, no. 1217. 5M>., pp. 288 f.; Mw., pp. 502 f. 
6Inschr. v. Ol., no. 165 (renewed); base pictured, Mp., p. 288, fig. 123; Mw., p. 503; fig. 90. 
Furtwaengler had ascribed the statue of Aristion to the younger Polykleitos; this was disproved 
by the date of Aristion’s victory, Ol. 82 (=452 B. C.), given by the Oxy. Pap. 
7Michaelis, p. 446, no. 35; Clarac, V, 946, 2436 A; Furtw., Mp., p. 289, fig. 124; Mw., p. 504, 
fig. 91. 
8X XIII, 660; cf. Od., XIX, 86: “By Apollo’s grace he hath so goodly a son’”’—meaning that 
Apollo gave increase of physical strength to men, just as Artemis did to women. Cf. Hesiod, 
Theog., 346-7. MESES TOE 
Quaest. conviv., VIII, 4 (=p. 724 C, D.); here he also mentions a Gymnasion of Apollo at 
Athens. 
Told by many writers: ¢. g., Apollod., II, 6.2. 
2P., X, 13.7, describes a group at Delphi representing Apollo and Hermes grasping the tripod 
before the fight; in VIII, 37.1 he mentions the same subject on a marble relief at Lykosoura, and 
in III, 21.8 says that Gythion was founded by the two after the contest, and that their images 
stood in the agora there. The subject was represented in the gable of the Siphnian Treasury at 
Delphi: Frazer, V, p. 274 (in connection with P., X,11.2). Stephani enumerated 89 existing works 
of art which represent this subject, of which 58 appear on black-figured, 18 on red-figured vases, 
8 on marble reliefs, 3 on terra-cottas, and 2 on gems: Comptes rendus de la comm. impéer. archéol., 
St. Petersburg, 1868, pp. 31 f.; Overbeck has added to the list: Griech. Mythol., III, Apollon, 
1889, pp. 391-415. 
