298 TWO MARBLE HEADS FROM VICTOR STATUES. 
that of a youthful Herakles. Yet such a view is wrong; for, apart from 
all considerations which we shall adduce to identify it with the Akarna- 
nian pancratiast, and in the absence of distinguishing attributes, if we 
compare it with another Lysippan 
head from a statue generally recog- 
nized as that of a Herakles—the 
famous Pentelic marble one in Lans- 
downe House, London (PI. 30 and 
Fig. 71),1 which Michaelis long ago 
characterized as “unmistakably in 
the spirit of Lysippos’’—we can see 
how fundamentally different is the 
whole spiritual conception of the 
two, and how differently an ath- 
lete (even if highly idealized) and a 
hero are treated by the same sculp- 
tor. If we once recognize a victor 
in the head from Olympia, then 
the swollen ears, the fierce, barbar- 
ous look of the eyes, and the half- 
painful expression of the mouth, 
all concur ‘in convincing us that we ae 
here have to do with a- victor in) 0 7) 010) qe 
boxing or the pankration, the two Herakles (Pl. 30). Lansdowne 
most brutal and dangerous contests. House, London. 











IDENTIFICATION OF THE OLYMPIA HEAD. 
Having established, then, the Lysippan character of the head and 
the probability that 1t comes from the statue of a boxer or pancratiast, 
we shall next discuss the evidence for identifying it with one of the 
monuments mentioned by Pausanias in his pertegesis of the Altis. He 
names only five statues of victors by Lysippos: those of Troilos,? victor 
in the two- and four-horse chariot-races; of Philandridas* and of Polyda- 
mas,‘ victors in the pankration; of Cheilon,® victor in wrestling, and of 
Kallikrates,® victor in the hoplite-race. Of these, the only two which 
can come into consideration are those of the two pancratiasts; and one 
of these, that of Polydamas, can at once be eliminated; for this small 
head can have had nothing to do with the pretentious monument men- 
tioned by Pausanias in these words: 6 6€ él 7T@ Babpw TH btWnrd@ 
Avoimmov peév éoTt Epyov, ueyloTos 6€ aTavTwy éyeveTo avOpwrwy, K.T.X. 
1Michaelis, pp. 451 f., no. 61; Specimens, I, Pl. XL; Furtwaengler, Mp., p. 297, fig. 125, Mw., 
p. 516, fig. 92; Graef, R. M., IV, 1889, pp. 189 f., and Pls. VIII-IX; Springer-Michaelis, p. 336, 
fig. 600; Clarac, V, 788, 1973; etc. It was found in 1790 in the ruins of Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli. 
2VI, 1.4. SV eral eV IT Sele 5VI, 4.6. 6VI, 17.3. 
