188 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
Myron made statues of pentathletes and pancratiasts at Delphi. Thus 
he showed as much versatility as Pythagoras in the representation of 
victors in different contests. None of these statues has survived and the 
identification of existing Roman copies with any of them is, of course, 
highly problematical. ‘Thus, a little further on we make the suggestion 
that the statue of the boxer in the Louvre, commonly known as Pollux 
(Fig. 58), may be, because of its Myronian character, the statue of the 
unknown Arkadian boxer at Olympia mentioned by Pausanias (in con- 
nection with the boy boxer Philippos) as the work of Myron.” Pliny, in 
the passage just cited, also mentions statues of pristae by Myron, a 
word which has given rise to many interpretations: ¢. g., Sea-monsters 
(pristes or pistres), men working with a cross-cut saw (pristae), players at 
see-saw (pristae?),? and boxers(pyctae).t ‘Themanuscripts are unanimous 
for pristae, and hence it 1s probable that a realistic group by Myron is 
meant, since Myron is often classed as a realist in opposition to Poly- 
kleitos, the idealist. Long ago Dalecampius, followed in recent years 
by Furtwaengler,® believed that these pristae formed a votive offering, 
and H. L. von Urlichs has shown that a group of sawyers as the dedica- 
tion of some master-builder is quite in harmony with fifth-century tradi- 
tions. H.Stuart Jones’ connects the words Perseum et pristas of Pliny’s 
text, and follows the theory of Mayer® that the carpenters or sawyers 
were a part of a group, which represented the inclosure of Danaé and 
Perseus in the chest. 
While the athletic statues in motion by Pythagoras and Mute 
became models for later sculptors, especially 1 in the following century,? 
the rest statues of Polykleitos still remained in vogue in works by mem- 
bers of his family and school down through the fourth century, as. 
we have seen in our treatment of the Argive-Sikyonian sculptors at 
Olympia. 
MOTION STATUES REPRESENTING VICTORS IN 
VARIOUS CONTESTS. 
We shall now review the types of victor statues, which reproduced in 
their pose the various contests, 7. ¢., statues in motion. We shall find 


LT ON A Ls Oe 
*VI, 8.5; Hyde, 79 (Arkadian) and 79a (Philippos), and commentary on pp. 39 f. 
’The interpretation of Murray, Class. Rev., 1, 1887, pp. 3-4. 
“The emendation of Loeschke, Dorpaterprogr., 1880, p.9; accepted by Reisch, p. 44, n. 3, Rich- 
ardson, p. 151, and others. 
®Der Dornauszieher und der Knabe mit der Gans, 1876, p. 89, n. 30. 
6Quoted by Jex-Blake, Add. to p. 46, 1. 
Select Passages from Anc. Writers Illustrative of the History of Gk. Sculpt., p. 66. 
‘Mayer, in A. M., XVI, 1891, pp. 246 f., showed that on vase- -paintings of Myron’s time and 
on coins of Elata, Acone a woman is often pase feet as standing in the chest, while two men, 
Perseus and the carpenter, stand beside it. 
°F. g., the statue of the boy boxer Athenaios of Ephesos was represented in motion, 1. ¢., in the 
act of sparring, as we see from the footprints on the recovered base: Inschr. v. Ol., 168; he won 
some time between Ols. (?) 93 and 103 (=384 and 368 B. C.): P., VI, 4.1; Hyde, 36; Foerster, 419. 
