296 TWO MARBLE HEADS FROM VICTOR STATUES. 
(though young and vigorous) a pensive, even a sad look of heroic dig- 
nity, a look seemingly of one who takes no joy nor pleasure 1 in victory, 
though it is not mournful. ‘This humid and pensive expression was 
doubtless a characteristic of works of Lysippos—it was, as we know, 
present in his portraits of Alexander—but he did not treat it with as 
great intensity as did Skopas. 
The eyeballs in both heads are strongly arched, though the inner 
angles are not so deep as in Skopaic heads; the raised upper hds 
form a symmetrically narrow and sharply defined border over the eye- 
ball, and in neither head is this lid covered by a fold of skin at the outer 
corners, as in the [egea heads; the mass of flesh at the outer corners is 
heavier in the head from Olympia, and the expression of the eyes is more 
free and defiant than in the more meditative 4gias. In both, the cheek 
bones are high and prominent. ‘The elegant contour of the lips of the 
A gias is wholly wanting in the head from Olympia, in which the lips are 
broken off, like the nose and the chin, but it is clear that the lips were 
slightly parted, just showing the teeth—not, however, as in the legea 
examples, as if the breath were being drawn with great effort. ‘The 
look of pensiveness is also increased by the open lips. The contour of 
the jawbone 1s not so visible as in the 4gias, where it is clearly discern- 
ible beneath the closely drawn skin, giving the face a look of greater 
leanness, as of an athlete in perfect training. 
In both heads the swollen and battered ears, though small, are promi- 
nent, and in both the hair is closely cropped, as becomes the athlete. 
The hair of the 4gias does not show so much expression as is displayed 
in that of some Lysippan heads, nor the fine detail we should expect 
from Pliny’s statement that Lysippos made improvements in the 
rendering of the hair'—for it is in great measure only sketched out. 
In Lysippan portraits of Alexander the hair is generally expressively 
treated, and this is often the case in early Hellenistic heads.2 How- 
ever, we should not expect an elaborate treatment of the hair in the 
statue of a pancratiast. The head from Olympia also shows great 
simplicity in this regard. As in Skopaic heads, the hair is fashioned 
into little ringlets rufHled straight up from the forehead in flat relief, 
but here the curls are shorter and more tense. ‘It covers the temples 
and surrounds the ears as in the J4gias, but it is not, as there, bounded 
by a round, floating line across the forehead, nor divided into little 
tufts modeled in relief radiating in concentric circles from the top of 
the head. While lacking in detail, the hair of the Agias is treated 
carefully, and with the greatest variety. Narrow bands, perhaps the 
insignia of victory, despite their small size, encircle both heads; in 
the Agias the band is dexterously used to heighten the effect of variety 
i te hey. DA hee 
2 
The hair, however, of the 4poxyomenos is an exception, for, even if worked out with some care, 
it is devoid of expression. 


