CHAPTER VIII. 
POSITIONS OF VICTOR STATUES IN THE ALTIS; OLYMPIC 
VICTOR MONUMENTS ERECTED OUTSIDE OLYMPIA; STA- 
TISTICS OF OLYMPIC VICTOR STATUARIES.! 
Pians A AND B. 
The first part of this final chapter is a special study in the topography 
of the Altis at Olympia. It is an attempt to fix, more or less exactly, 
the positions of victor statues erected there, so far as these can be de- 
termined from the data furnished by Pausanias, and from the locations 
of the inscribed fragmentary bases of the statues which have been re- 
covered during the excavations at Olympia. 
STATUES MENTIONED BY PAUSANIAS. 
We shall first attempt to give the positions of the statues mentioned 
by Pausanias, who is our chief source of information. After describing 
the votive offerings (ava@juatra) at the end of Book V, he begins 
the enumeration of the monuments of “race-horses . . . and 
athletes and private individuals” at the beginning of Book VI.2. This 
description falls into two routes (€odor), the first of which is concerned 
with the statues of 168 victors,? and the second with those of 19.4 Both 
accounts also include many “honor” monuments erected to private 
persons. ‘The first route begins at the Heraion in the northwestern 
part of the sacred enclosure, while the second begins—manifestly where 
the first ends—at the Leonidaion at its southwestern corner, and 
extends to a point near the so-called Great Altar of Zeus near the 
centre of the Altis (see Plans A and B).’ Besides these meagre indi- 
cations of his two routes furnished by Pausanias himself, we are 
fortunate in knowing exactly the position of one statue, that of Telema- 
chos, the 122d victor mentioned, the base of which still stands in situ 
near the South wall of the Altis, a little southeast of the temple of Zeus, 
1The first part of this chapter appeared, under the title The Positions of Victor Statues at Olym- 
pia, in 4. J. 4., XVI, 2d Ser., 1912, pp. 203-229, with Plan; the second part, entitled, Greek Liter- 
ary Notices of Olympic Victor Monuments outside Olympia, appeared in Trans. Amer. Philol. Assn., 
XLII, 1912, pp. 53-67. Iamindebted to Dr. J. M. Paton, former editor-in-chief of the 4. J. 4., 
for permission to use the former, and to Prof. Clarence Bill, the present secretary of the American 
Philological Association, for permission to use the latter. Only slight changes have been made 
in the original articles for the present work. The summary of the last section, Statistics of 
Olympic Victor Statuaries, is revised from my note published in Proceedings of the American 
Philological Association, XLIV, 1913, pp. xxx-xxxi. I am also indebted to Professor Bill for 
permission to use it in the present work. 
*intwv aywviotav . . . Kal avdpav &OAnTar Te Kal idwrdv duolws (VI, 1.1). 
8VI, Chs. 1-16. 169 in my de olympionicarum Statuis: Philon of Kerkyra, who had two 
statues, is there named twice, under nos. 91 and 136. 
4VI, Chs. 17-18. 
5See Ergebn. v. Ol., Karten u. Plaene, 1899, III, IV (Doerpfeld); cf. also H. Luckenbach, Olympia 
und Delphi, 1904, p. 11, fig. 5 (=A. J. A., XVI, 1912, p. 204, fig. 1). 
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