THE GROUP OF DAOCHOS AT DELPHI, AND LYSIPPOS. 287 
Daochos, with the additional information that Lysippos of Sikyon 
made the statue, our views of the work of that artist had to undergo a 
thorough revision. For this discovery brought the 4gias—if not the 
others of the group—into direct relation to Lysippos by documentary 
evidence, while the easily recognized Lysippan characteristics of the 
statue—the slender body and limbs, the small head, the proportions 
and pose—confirmed this connection on stylistic grounds. It became 

Fic. 68.— Head from the Statue of Agias (PI. 28). 
Museum of Delphi. 
clear that Daochos had set up a series of statues in honor of his an- 
cestors both at Pharsalos and Delphi. Whether the Thessalian group 
was of bronze, as is generally held, owing to the widespread belief 
that Lysippos worked only in metal, and the Delphian group was com- 
posed of contemporary marble copies of those originals, will be dis- 
cussed further on. If the marble group was a copy, we may infer that 
it reproduced the original statues, not mechanically and laboriously as 
was often the case in Roman days, but accurately; for having employed 
a noted artist in the one case, the dedicator would have desired an 
accurate reproduction of the work in the other. 
