ZEGINETAN SCULPTORS. is 
These groups represent the highest period of Aeginetan art. They 
have been dated anywhere from the end of the sixth century B.C. down 
to a period after the battle of Salamis.’ Probably a date just after that 
battle is correct, as Aeginetans won prizes of valor there.2. Any at- 
tempt to assign them to this or that artist is merely conjectural. The 
general similarity in subject to that of the Delphi group by Onatas, 
which represented the death in battle of Opis, the king of the barbarian 
lapygians, at the hands of the Tarentines,* and the group at Olympia 


Fic. 21.—TIwo Figures; from the West Pediment of the Temple on Aegina. 
Glyptothek, Munich. 
already mentioned as representing a Trojan subject, led earlier scholars 
to assign the slightly more advanced statues of the East Pediment to 
Onatas and the more archaic ones of the West Pediment to Kallon. But 
we know both these sculptors only asbronzeworkers. The violent action 
of some of the figures reminds us at once of Pausanias’ description of the 
statue of the boxer Glaukos by the sculptor Glaukias, which we have 
already mentioned. But on the whole, though they are violent, the 
slight proportions of these athletic figures do not fit the appearance of 
boxers and pancratiasts, which, as we have seen, formed the staple of 
Aeginetan sculptors, but rather those of runners. We see a good 
wrestler in the Snatcher of the East Gable (Fig. 20),* and the corre- 
tWhile Overbeck dates them about 500 B.C., Furtwaengler, Bulle, Gardner, and others 
date them about 480 B. C. 2Hdt., VIII, 93. oP ek ia SLU 
4Furtw., op. cit., Tafelbd., Pl. 95, no. 82, and Textbd., pp. 248-9, and fig. 178 on p. 23; 
B. B., no 26; Gardner, Hbk., p. 229, fig. 52; it is from the north half of the gable. 
