96 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VICTOR STATUES AT OLYMPIA. 
In this head the ears are bruised. It seems to have been copied from 
some well-known statue of Lysippan or Skopaic tendencies. Another 
head in the British Museum shows the beardless hero, his hair en- 
circled by a diadem, and his ears broken and crushed.!' This almost 
certainly comes from a victor statue. Many bronze statuettes in the 
British Museum may be interpreted either as Herakles or as victors.? 
A bronze from Corfu represents a nude Herakles or an athlete, with 
the left foot advanced and the left hand extended. ‘The objects held in 
both hands are lost, but the challenging pose and expression indicate 
a boxer.’ Similarly a small bronze in Berlin, represented with a 
fillet and in the walking pose, may bea Herakles or a victor. Duetschke 
gives two examples of heads in the Uffizi, both of them having fillets, 
and one of them having swollen ears, which may come from statues 
of the hero or victors.® Heads of the hero with the rolled fillet can not, 
however, according to Furtwaengler, be classed as victors, since he 
believes that this attribute was borrowed from the symposium, to 
distinguish the glorified hero rejoicing in the celestial banquet.® 
ATHLETES REPRESENTED AS THE DIOSKOUROI. 
Kastor is said to have won the foot-race and Polydeukes the boxing 
match, at Olympia.’ They had an altar at the entrance to the Hippo- 
drome there,’ and were called “Starters of the Race’’ at Sparta.?® 
A stadion, in which they were fabled to have contended, was shown in 
Hermione, in Corinthia.!° Kastor was a famous horse-racer in Homer 
and later writers,'! and Polydeukes a famous boxer,'’? both being kar’ 
é£oxnv the rider and boxer respectively.’ Scenes showing Athena setting 
garlands on victorious hoplite racers (?) appear on reliefs of the Dios- 
kouroi from Tarentum." An archaic Argive inscription tells how a 
certain Aischylos won the stade-race four times and the hoplite-race 
1B. M. Sculpt., III, no. 1732; Specimens, I, Pl. 57; Museum Marbles, III, Pl. 12. A similar 
head, half portrait and half ideal, appears on coins of Macedonia. Such filleted heads as nos. 
1733 and 1740 of B. M. Sculpt. are probably from statues of Herakles. The statuette of a seated 
Herakles, zbid., no. 1726, with the lion-skin and wearing a laurel wreath tied on with a fillet 
(=Reinach, Rép., II, 1, p. 227, no. 3; J. H. S., III, 1882, Pl. X XV.) and inscribed as the work 
of Diogenes (J. G. B., 361), recalls the description of the pose of the Hermes Epitrapezios made 
by Lysippos for Alexander: Statius, Silv., IV, 6; cf. Martial, TX. 44. 
2B. M. Bronz., nos. 1254, 1276, 1292, etc. 
3B. M. Bronz., Pl. II (upper right-hand); text, no. 212. 
4Friedrichs, Kleinere Kunst, 1850; mentioned by Furtw., Mw., p. 525, n. 2. 
TTI, nos. 9 and 19; no. 19 has swollen ears. 
6See Furtw., /p.,.pp. 234 and 236; Mw., pp. 429 and 433. He gives as an example the Poly- 
kleitan ephebe head-type discussed supra, p. 95. 
itp Ve 84. CP av bows 9P., ITI, 14.7 (agernptor). 10P., II, 34.10. 
“liad, III, 237(=Od., XI, 300); Homeric Hymn to the Dioskouroi, XX XIII, 3; Pindar, Isthm., 
I, 16 f.; Pyth., V. 9; etc. Kastor was famed also for throwing the quoit: Pindar, Jsthm., I, 25. 
2Tliad and Od., //. cc.; Simonides, frag. 8 (P. 1. G., III, p. 390); Apoll. Rhod., Argon., II, 1 f. 
1A poll. Rhod., op. cit., I, 146; Theokr., XXII, 2-3 and 34; Pindar, Pyth., XI, 61-2; Nem., X, 
49-50; Isthm., V, 32-3; etc.; various Roman poets: see Bethe, in Pauly-Wissowa, V, I, pp. 1092-4. 
4R, M., XV, 1900, 1 f. (with illustrations). 
