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cally narrow and sharply defined borders over the eyeballs. These 
borders, in each case, are not partially hidden by the folds of skin at 
the outer corners, as they are in the: Tegea heads; and yet the masses 
of flesh projecting from the brows are almost as heavy as in the latter. 
In both the heads from Olympia and Sparta the upper lids slightly 
overlap the under at the outer corners. ‘The eye-sockets in both seem 
to be equally deep and the cheek-bones similarly high and prominent. 
We remark in the Philandridas the gradual converging of the sides of 
the face toward the middle, a trait which we have already observed in 
the head from Sparta as in contrast with the more angular forma- 
tion with lateral planes so characteristic of the Tegea male heads. The 
flatness of the nose and the curves which it makes with the brow on 
either side are very similar in the two heads under discussion. In both, 
the hair is treated in the same simple and sketchy manner, being fash- 
ioned into little ringlets ruffled back from the temples in flat relief quite 
in the Skopaic manner, even if the curls seem shorter and more tense. 
When we come to a consideration of the lower part of each face, we 
immediately detect differences. While both faces end in an oval, 
this is broader, heavier, and more bony in that of the Philandridas, 
as we should expect in the case of a more mature man. Consequently 
here the mouth is larger and firmer. ‘The elegant contour of the lips 
observable in the 4gias is also found, to a less degree, in the head 
from Sparta, whose lips are fuller and more sensuous, but can not be 
traced in the Philandridas owing to the damaged condition of the mouth. 
It is clear, however, that the lips of the latter were also slightly parted, 
just showing the teeth, but not as in the Tegea heads, as if the breath 
were being forced through them with great effort. 
It is, however, in the expression of these two faces that we see the 
greatest resemblance. In the Philandridas, the powerful framing of 
the eyes, the slightly upward gaze of the balls, and the contracted 
forehead combine to give it a pensive, even melancholy, look of dig- 
nity, a look seemingly of one who takes no joy, or pleasure in victory, 
though, as we have already mentioned,’ it is earnest rather than 
mournful. The almost identical treatment of the eye and its sur- 
roundings gives the still more youthful head from Sparta a similar 
expression. Homolle’s analysis of the expression of the face of the 
Agias would apply with equal fitness to the mood portrayed in both 
the heads we are discussing: “L’ expression qui résulte de ces divers traits, 
cest, dans une figure jeune et vigoureuse, un air pensif ou lassé, une 
certaine mélancolie, qui ne va pas ala tristesse morne ou a la médita- 
tion profonde, mais qui reste plus loin encore de la joie insouctante de 
la vie et de la pure allégresse de la victoire.” Preuner remarked that 


1See supra, pp. 295-6. 
2B. C. H. XXIII, 1899, p. 455. Furtwaengler, Bronz. v. Ol., pp. 10 f., has shown that it was a 
favorite device to represent boxers and pancratiasts with a sombre look (“der finstere Blick’’). 
