Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 286
in-throwing and jumping); two othersin the British Museum, B 136 and 602 ( = diskos-throwing); another there, B 605 (javelin-throwing); etc. PENTATHLETES. 211 showing that such contests were important. We have already saidthat the pentathlon represented the whole physical training of Greekyouths;… … Fig. 44.— Pentathletes. Scene from a Panathenaic Amphora in theBritish Museum, London. Polykleitos, in order to embody the principles of his athlete canon,made a statue of a javelin-thrower (the Doryphoros) as the bestexample of an all-round man. None of the statues of pentathletes at Olympia has…
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