CHAPTER VI. 
TWO MARBLE HEADS FROM VICTOR STATUES: 
PLaTEs 28-30 aND FicureEs 68-77. 
THE GROUP OF DAOCHOS AT DELPHI, AND LYSIPPOS. 
If in these later years our knowledge of Skopas has been greatly 
augmented by the discovery of the Tegea heads (Fig. 73), that of 
Lysippos has been almost revolutionized. With the discovery in 1894 
at Delphi of the group of statues dedicated by the Thessalian Daochos? 
in honor of various members of his house, whose dates covered nearly 
two centuries,*® an entirely new impetus was given to the study of the 
last of the great Greek sculptors. Homolle immediately recognized the 
fourth-century origin of the group, and at first pronounced the statue 
of Agias Lysippan;? later he saw in the types, poses, and proportions 
of the group the mixed influences of Praxiteles, Skopas, and Lysippos, 
but referred the 4gias to the school of Skopas,° while still later he again 
pronounced it Lysippan.® But its true character was not destined 
to be long in doubt. When Erich Preuner’ found almost the same 
metrical inscription, which was on the base of the best preserved statue 
of the group, that of Agias (PI. 28 and Fig. 68),® in the traveling journal 
of Stackelberg,®copied from a base in Pharsalos, the [hessalian home of 

1The first part of the present chapter appeared under the caption, Lysippus as a Worker in 
Marble, in 4. J. d., 2d Series, XI, 1907, pp. 396-416, and figs. 1-6; the second part, entitled, 
The Head of a Youthful Heracles from Sparta, appeared ibid., XVIII, 1914, pp. 462-478, and 
fig. 1. Both parts have been rewritten. The author is indebted to the former editor-in-chief, 
Dr. James M. Paton, for permission to use the original papers in writing the present chapter. 
2First noted by Homolle, Gaz. B.-d., XII, 1894, III Seér., pp. 452 f.; id., B. C. H., XXI1, 1897, 
pp. 592 f.; 7d., ibid., X XIII, 1899, pp. 421 f.; id., Rev. Arch., 1900, p. 383; P. Gardner, J. H. S., 
XXV, 1905, pp. 234 f. (The Apoxyomenos of Lysippos). For a good summary and a new identi- 
fication of the figures of the group (without discussing the style), see Miss E. M. Gardner and 
K. K. Smith, 4. J. 4., XIII, 1909, pp. 447 f. (Pl. XIV and 21 text-cuts). 
’The group was composed of nine statues: three of athletes, those of the brothers Agias, a pan- 
cratiast, lelemachos, a wrestler, and Agelaos, a boy runner; four statesmen, and the son of the 
dedicator, and one unknown: B. C. H., XXI, pp. 592 f.; Sitzb. Muen. Akad., 1913, III, no. 4, 
pp. 45-46. 
‘Gaz. B.-A., XII, 1894, p. 452: “un des meilleures exemples dela maniére de Lysippe.” 
BB. Goll mA Aly Soin, 598: . 
6B. C. H., XXIII, 1899, pp. 470-1: “L’auteur de la statue d’Agias ..... ne peut étre 
cherché que dansl’ école de Lysippe ou dans sadépendanceimmédiate ..... ”? “On p. 472 he says 
that in the Agias we havea statue “qui approche aussi prés que possible d’un original de Lysippe.” 
7Ein delphisches Weihgeschenck, 1900; for the inscription referring to the statue of Agias, see 
B.C. H., XX1,1897, pp. 592-593. Preuner’s ingenious theory was based ona combination of the 
inscriptions on the bases of the group. 
8Fouilles de Delphes, 1V, 1904, Pls. LXIII (full length), LXIV (head); statue of Sisyphos I, 
Pl. LXV; Sisyphos II, LXVIII (= B. C. H., XXIII, Pl. IX); Agelaos (= B. C. H., XXIII, Pl. TX). 
For the Agias, see also B. C. H., XXIII, 1899, Pls. X (head, two views) and XI (statue); von Mach, 
234; Springer-Michaelis, p. 336, fig. 596; Reinach, Rép., II, 2, 549, 11 (before the discovery of the 
lower legs). The nameis to be spelled either Agias or Hagias; the former has now become usual. 
*Baron Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1760-1836) visited Pharsalos in September 1811. 
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