146 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED AT REST. 
masterpiece in the portrayal of brute strength in the most naturalistic 
and revolting way. If we like to think of victors as having noble forms, 
we are rudely startled on looking at this brutal prize-fighter. If we 
compare it with works of the fifth and fourth centuries B. C., we see in 
it, as in no other example of Greek sculpture, the great change which 

Fic. a7 ied from Statue of the Seated Boxer. 
Museo delle Terme, Rome. 
professionalism had later wrought in the Greek ideal of athletics. Here 
are massive proportions, bulging muscles, arms and legs hard and 
muscle-bound. We can compare it only with the bronze head of a 
boxer found at Olympia (Fig. 61 A and B) of similar style and age.!_ But 
there we have only the head, while here we have a complete statue 
almost perfectly preserved, the only restorations being a portion of the 
left thumb, a piece of the right flank, and the base. 
It represents a professional boxer, who is seated exhausted at the 
close of the bout, the severity of which is indicated by every part of the 


1Discussed infra, Ch. IV, pp. 254-5. 
