294 TWO MARBLE HEADS FROM VICTOR STATUES. 
dition of the chin, nose, mouth, and brows. He found the general pro- 
portions, the shape of the cranium and forehead, and the form of the 
cheeks and mouth the same in both, while the differences, such as the 
deeper cut and wider opened eyes with their yopyov expression, the 
hair, and the fact that the head is harder, leaner, and bonier than that 
of the Hermes, were all explained by the different character given to the 
statue of a victor or Herakles. Many other archzologists, as Boetticher,} 
Laloux and Monceaux,” and Furtwaengler,’® have also seen sure signs of 
the hand of Praxiteles or his school in the graceful attitude, delicate 
chiseling, and finish of the work. Still others,* however, found every 
characteristic of Skopas in this head. Even ‘Treu in his later treatment 
of the head found it more Skopaic than Praxitelian, and yet, by a careful 
analysis,®> he conclusively showed that the formation of the eyes, the 
opening of the mouth, and the treatment of the hair were so different 
in the heads from Tegea (and especially in that of the Herakles, Fig. 73) 
as to preclude the possibility of assigning them and the head from 
Olympia to the same sculptor, and so declared for some independent 
sculptor among the contemporaries of Skopas. However, he did not 
see Lysippos in this allied but independent artist, though he admitted 
the resemblance of the head in question to that of the 4gias, as also 
Homolle,® Mahler,’ and other critics have done. 
THE OLYMPIA HEAD AND THAT OF THE AGIAS: 
A detailed.comparison of this head with that of the 4gzas will show 
wherein the wonderful resemblance—so striking at first glance—con- 
sists and will disclose its Lysippan character. Neither head is a por- 
trait, nor even individualized; the 4gias could be no portrait, for Agias 
was the great-grandfather of Daochos, who enlisted the services of his 
contemporary Lysippos in erecting his statue, and he won his eS ay 
in the pankration more than a century before this statue was set up.° 
A glance at the head from Olympia also clearly discloses its ideal char- 
acter; for it 1s no portrait of Philandridas, but the victor kar’ é£ox nv in 
the pankration. ‘The small head of the 4gias—under life-size—first 
arrests attention as the chief characteristic of the whole statue and 
(taken with the other proportions of the body) as the chief mark of its 
Lysippan origin. As Homolle says, it is not that small heads are not 
found outside the school of Lysippos or before his day—for Myron can 

‘Olympia’, 1886, pp. 343 f. and Pl. XVI (right). 
*Restauration d’Olympie, 1889, p. 137. 3In Roscher, Lex., I, 2, s. v. Herakles, p. 2166. 
‘FE. g., Graef, R. M., IV, 1889, pp. 189-226, especially p. 217; von Sybel, in Luetzow’s Zeitschr. 
fuer bild. Kunst, N.F., II, pp. 253 f. 
5Bildw. v. Ol., pp. 209 and n. 1. 6B. C. H., XXIII, 1899, pp. 456-7. 
"Polyklet u. seine Schule, p. 149. 
’Preuner (op. cit., p. 12) dates the dedication 339-331 B. C.; Homolle (B.C. H., XVIII, 1899, 
p. 440) more closely, 338-334 B.C. Preuner dates Agias’ victory about 450 B. C. 
