WRESTLERS, Zoi 
runners,’ diskoboloi,” and wrestlers. Their attitude, bent forward 
with outstretched hands, implies the utmost expectancy. If they 
were runners, they would lean further forward; as they are standing, 
they could not begin to run without loss of time in raising the heels of 
the forward feet. If, on the other hand, they represented diskos- 
throwers at the moment just subsequent. to the throw, their right 
feet would be advanced and not their left, in order to recover their 
balance, as we have seen above in considering Gardiner’s seventh 
position. ‘The position of their arms, however, and the expression 
of their faces make it almost certain that they are wrestlers eagerly 

Fic. 50.—Wrestling and Boxing Scenes. From a r.-f. Kylix. 
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia. 
watching for an opening. ‘The two statues certainly belong together, 
and may have been set up as antagonists in the villa in whose ruins they 
were found. F. Hauser was the first to show that the form of body 
and head in both was the same.? While most critics believe that they 
are Hellenistic in origin, Bulle is certainly right in showing that the body 
ideal expressed is Lysippan—z. ¢., long legs and slender trunk—even 
if he goes too far in ascribing them to the master himself, basing his 
conclusion chiefly on ‘the similarity of their ears with those of the 
A poxyomenos (Pl. 29). A good illustration of a hand or wrist grip 
is afforded by a small wrestler group, which decorates ‘the rim of a 
bronze bowl from Borsdorf.‘ This is a poorly wrought Etruscan work of 
fifth-century B.C. Greek origin. The two wrestlers have already gripped 

1Kalkmann, Jb., X, 1895, p. 64, n. 49 (dolichodromoi). 
2Cf. Gardiner, p. 382. 
3]b., IV, 1889, pp. 116, n. 8; cf. Benndorf, Jh. oest. arch. Inst., IV, 1901, pp. 172-3 and n. 12. 
Mahler wrongly thought that the heads were different: Polyklet u. s. Schule, p. 18; he assigned 
one to the fifth century B. C., the other to the influence of Praxiteles. Benndorf believed the 
two figures to be copies of one statue, later used to make a group. 
4Bulle, no. 90; in the Landesmuseum of Darmstadt: see Adamy, Archaeol. Sammi. des grossherz. 
Hess. Museums, 1897, p. 21, no. 19. The figures are only 0.075 meter high. 
