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However, since Pausanias says that Myron made the statue,! various 
attempts have been made to reconcile the discrepancy in dates. Our 
own solution is that the statue seen by Pausanias did not represent 
Philippos at all, but some earlier unnamed Arkadian boxer, who was 
contemporary with Myron.? Years later the Azanian boy Philippos 
won a victory at Olympia and at- 7 
tached the recovered epigram to the 
old base, in which he implored Zeus 
to let the ancient glory of Arkadia 
be revived in him, and also a newer 
one in which he said that he had re- 
stored the statue of Myron.’ Pausa- 
nias saw the newer one, but omitted 
to mention the older, which was prob- 
ably illegible from weathering. He 
therefore thought that the original 
Myronian statue used by Philippos 
represented the latter victor. The 
words on the affixed plate beginning 
woe aorTas 6 IleNaoyos ér’ “AAPEre oka 
mbKTas kK. T. \., may refer to the posi- 
tion of the boxer rather than to a 
portrait of the victor.» We have 
long ago hazarded the suggestion® 
that the so-called Pollux of the 
Louvre (Fig. 58),7 whose body forms 
recall the Marsyas and whose head 
recalls the Diskobolos, may go back 
to the statue of the unnamed Arka- 
dian by Myron.® But the uncer- 
tainty which we have found in a 
former section’ in assigning this and 
kindred works to Myron or to Py- 
thagoras leaves it only a suggestion. 
AV [0 8.5. Fic. 58.—Statue known as Pollux. 
2See Hyde, de olymp. Stat., pp. 39-41. There Me louvre. batts: 
Ol. 80 or 84 (=460 or 444 B.C.) has been sug- 
gested for the original victory. 
3Philippos won some time between Ols. (?) 119 and 125 (=304 and 280 B. C.): Hyde, 79 a. 
4Hitz.-Bluemn., II, 2, p. 575, in discussing my solution of the difficulty, call it ““sannreich, aber 
doch ungemein kompliziert,” and the assumption that a victor would use an older statue of a fellow 
countryman to celebrate his own victory ‘‘sehr bedenklich.” 
6Cf. Dittenberger,:Inschr. v. Ol., p. 296. 
6Op. cit., p.41. See also supra, p. 188. 
7Mon. d. I., X, 1874-78, Pl. II (head, two views); Annalt, XLVI, 1874, Pl. L and pp. 51-f: 
(Brizio); Photo. Giraudon, no. 1207. na 
8F urtwaengler sees in this statue a work by Pythagoras: Mp., p. 171 f.; Mw., pp. 345 f.; Brizio, 
l.c., ascribes it to Hagelaidas. %Supra, pp. 180-1. 


