Olympic victor monuments and Greek athletic art (1921)
Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871- · Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington · leaf 365
HIPPODROME AND MUSICAL VICTORS. MONUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE HORSE-RACE. When we turn to the monuments which illustrate the horse-race, wefind as varied a number—vase-paintings, reliefs, coins, statuary, etc.—as in the case of chariot victors. Vase-paintings show that the jockey was generally nude… … Fig.67. f. Panathen; From a Sixth-Century B. C.British^Museum, London. drachm in the same museum, which commemorates the Olympicvictory of Philip II of Macedonia.2 Here the victorious mountedjockey has a palm in his hand, the symbol of his victory. On the otherhand, the jockey is sometimes…
Sculpture, Greek · Olympics · Sports
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