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Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)

Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 362

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crowning himin a chariot and the charioteer per-sonified as Kyreneoutside,thewholebeing the work of the Knossiansculptor Amphion.3 Svoronos4 fol-lows Washburns suggestion andidentifies the Charioteer with Bat-tos, believing that the fragment ofthe left arm found with the statue 1See Svoronos, p.… … Fig. 66.— Bronze Statue of theDelphi Charioteer. Museum ofDelphi. 278 MONUMENTS OF HIPPODROME AND MUSICAL VICTORS. is from the statue of Kyrene represented as a charioteer.1 Ingeniousas the theory is, there are chronological difficulties in the way ofaccepting it unreservedly. Thus Amphions pupil…

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