Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 35
t the most complete monu-ment that we have of gymnastic exercisein the Mediterranean civilization.3 Thelater Greek tradition of the high degreeof physical development attained by theCretans is proved by this monument.4 The reliefs are arranged in four horizon-tal zones.5 One of these, the second… … Fig. 1.—So-called Boxer Vase,from Hagia Triada (Cast).Museum of Candia. 1E. g., on one found at Knossos in 1903: B. S. A., IX, 1902-3, p. 57, and fig. 35 on p. 56. Herethe attitude of the boxer is almost identical with that on the pyxis to be described below. A fullerdesign of the same sort may be…
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