Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 306
her forward; as they are standing,they could not begin to run without loss of time in raising the heels ofthe forward feet. If, on the other hand, they represented diskos-throwers at the moment just subsequent to the throw, their rightfeet would be advanced and not their left, in order to recover… … Fig. SO.—-Wrestling and Boxing Scenes. From a r.-f. Kylix.University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia. watching for an opening. The two statues certainly belong together,and may have been set up as antagonists in the villa in whose ruins theywere found. F. Hauser was the first to show that the…
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