Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 108
I, p. 656 and PI. 61; Furtw., Mw., p. 361, fig. 48. It is a marble copy of anoriginal bronze of Myronian origin. Its height is 1.98 meters (Amelung). Duetschke, IV, no. 416; M. W., II, PI. 30, 329. ^Ibid., no. 416; Koerte, A. M., Ill, 1878, p. 350, no. 72. 6Duetschke, IV, no. 876; Clarac, 958,… … Statue of Hermes, from Andros. National Museum, Athens. ASSIMILATION OF OLYMPIC VICTOR STATUES. 73 a practice which was very common in imperial Rome.1 Thus manyof the Hellenistic princes were pleased to have their statues assimilatedto those of the heroic Alexander. One of the best examples ofthis…
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