314 TWO MARBLE HEADS FROM VICTOR STATUES. 
nella, 30 miles from Rome, and since 1899 in the Fogg Art Museum 
at Harvard University (Fig. 77),! one of the most beautiful of the 
many replicas. At first the original of these copies was supposed to 
be Lysippan, being identified with the Venator at Thespiai mentioned 
by Pliny as the work of Euthykrates, the son and pupil of Lysippos,’ 
but after the discovery of the Tegea heads it was almost universally 

Fic. 76— Head of the so-called Meleager. Villa 
Medici, Rome. 

1Mentioned in Not. Scav., 1895, p. 196, and figs. 1-2, andin R. M., X, p. 92 (Petersen); briefly 
described by R. Norton, Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, VIII, 1900 (June), pp. 485 f.; von Mach, 
215; Reinach, Rép., II, 2,555, 6. Cf. 4. J. 4., IV, 1900, p. 275 and V, 190) pp.e22 ee acne 
abstract of paper by von Mach). The Cambridge copy was found about 300 feet from the spot 
where the Berlin copy was discovered. 
°H. N., XXXIV, 66; in the text, et Alexandrum Thespiis venatorem, it is best to understand 
venatorem as an appositive, therefore indicating a statue of Alexander as hunter. As the boar 
(in the bronze original no support was necessary) is a Roman accessory like the chlamys, it is best 
to call the work under discussion not Meleager, but merely hunter and dog (so Furtw.-Urlichs, 
Denkm.,l. c.). It was probably dedicated by a successful hunter to Artemis, or else it was a grave- 
monument, as such figures are common on sarcophagi: see Robert, Ant. Sarcoph. Reliefs, IV, Pls. 
XLVI, 154, and XLIX, 155, pp. 188 f.; and also on Attic grave-reliefs: ¢. g., on the Ilissos relief 
mentioned above (Fig. 74). 
