204 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
after the greaves, but the shield was never given up.1. Thus the bronze 
statue of Mnesiboulos of Elateia, a victor (atv Tn do7tédc) of Pausanias’ 
day, which stood in “Runner Street” of his native city, appears to have 
been represented with the shield.* It was for this reason that the event 
was later sometimes called merely dozis.2 The shields that appear 
on the vases are always round and the helmets are Attic. The gradual 
reduction in the amount of the armor may have been a concession to 
the regular athletes, who probably looked upon the contest as a spurious 
sort of athletics. As for the style of the race, the hoplite runners seem 
to have run somewhat as the stade and double-course runners, 7. ¢., 
with their right hands up and their arms violently swinging.® 
The picturesqueness of such a race appealed especially to vase-paint- 
ers, who have given us all the detailsof the event. ‘The preparations for 
the race are seen on ared-figured kylix from Vulci, now in Paris, ascribed 
to Euphronios (Panaitios), on which one runner is donning his armor, 
while others are practising preliminary runs.® ‘The start is seen in the 
right-hand figure depicted on a r.-f. kylix in Berlin (Fig. 41, a).’. On 
another r.-f. kylix we see a pair of hoplites, one slowing up beter reach- 
ing the central post, the other turning it.®° The finish is seen on an 
obscene r.-f. kylix from Vulci in the style of Brygos, in the British 
Museum, where the bearded winner, with his helmet in his hand, looks 
back on his rival, and the latter, apparently in disgust, drops his shield.? 
The most complete illustration of the race is to be seen on the r.-f. Berlin 
kylix just mentioned (Fig. 41, a, b,c.) Here on one side is a group of 
three runners; the right-hand one is bending over, ready to start; the one 
at the left 1s about to turn the central post, and the one in the centre, 
who is turned in an opposite direction, is on the home stretch; on the 
other side of the vase are three runners in full course, while another 
appears on the interior of the vase.!° Some vases seem to show that 

1p., VI, 10.4. 
2P., X, 34.5. Mnesiboulos won stade- and hoplite-races at Olympia in Ol. 235 (=161 A. D.): 
Afr.; Foerster, 712-713; cf. Hitz.-Bluemn., II, 2, p. 582. He was also zreptodovixys in both events. 
She ge DVs bn ws 
4A bronze helmet found at Olympia, recently in the possession of the Bishop of Lincoln, is 
pictured in Joviows:, Ll, JLBB splot 
5F. g.. on the vase in Dar.-Sagl., I, 2, p. 1644, fig. 2231; on the Panathenaic vase in the British 
Museum, already mentioned, dating from the second half of the fourth century B. C.: B.M. Vases, 
IT, B. 608;=Gardiner, p. 290, fig. 58;=Mon..d.J., X, 1874-78, Pl. XLVIII,"e, 3-==Baumet ae 
p. 2110, fig. 2361; here the runners are running with the feet flat on the ground. 
6In the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothéque Nationale, no. 523; Hartwig, Die griech. 
Metsterschalen, 1893, pp. 132-142, Pls. XV, 2 and XVI; Gardiner, p. 286, fig. 54, and J. H.S., 
XXIII, p. 278, fig. 7; Hoppin, Hbk. Attic r.-f. Vases, 1, p. 427, no. 58. 
™No. 2307; Gerhard, IV, Pl. CCLXI; J. H. S., XXIII, p. 277, fig. 6; Gardiner, p. 288, fig. 56; 
Dar.-Sagl., II, 2, p. 1644, fig. 2232; Jb., II, 1887, p. 105; cf. similar runners on a r.-f. kylix in the 
British Museum, E 22: Murray, Designs from Greek Vases, no. 18; Hoppin, Hbk., I, p. 372, no. 21. 
8]. H. S., XXIII, 1903, p. 278, fig. 8; Gardiner, p. 287, fig. 55. It was formerly in Berlin. 
°F 818; J. H. S.,l.c., p. 285, fig. 12; Gardiner, p. 289, fig. 57; noted by Hartwig, Die griech. 
Meisterschalen, p. 373, no. 8; Hoppin, Hbk., I, p. 134, no. 69. 
°F or a reconstruction of the various phases of the armed-race from vase-paintings, see J. H.S., 
LBC De Lea 
