Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 307
unge in each case is muchexaggerated. Similar are the two groups on the rim of a bronze bowlin the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.1 A third-century B. C. Etruscancista in the Metropolitan Museum,2 has a handle on the lid in the formof two nude wrestlers, whose bodies are inclined toward one… … Fig. 51. of Naples. sea near Kythera and is now in Athens.4 The heave is representedby a metope from the Theseion representing the wrestling boutbetween Theseus and Kerkyon.5 A later moment is seen in a bronzewrestling-group in Paris.6 The cross-buttocks is illustrated by a smallHellenistic bronze…
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