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Ancient Athletics

Lecture 15

Athletics and Art: Sculptors and Poets

 

1.

 

 

Model of Olympia, DAI

Archaeological Museum, Olympia

 

2.

 

 

Statue Base of Victorious Athlete

Archaeological Museum, Olympia
© David Gilman Romano

 

3.

 

 

Bronze Charioteer, ca. 480 B.C.

Archaeological Museum, Delphi

 

4.

 

 

Bronze Charioteer (detail), ca. 480 B.C.

Archaeological Museum, Delphi

 

5.

 

 

Bronze Charioteer (detail), ca. 480 B.C.

Archaeological Museum, Delphi

 

6.

 

 

Bronze Charioteer (detail), ca. 480 B.C.

Archaeological Museum, Delphi

 

7.

 

 

Bronze Charioteer (detail), equestrian statue), ca. 480 B.C.

Archaeological Museum, Delphi

 

8.

 

 

Diskobolos of Myron, ca. 450 B.C.

Roman copy, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome

 

9.

 

 

Doryphoros of Polykleitos, ca. 440 B.C.

Roman copy, National Archaeological Museum, Naples

 

10.

 

 

Diadoumenos of Polykleitos, ca. 430 B.C.

Roman copy, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

11.

 

 

Diadoumenos of Polykleitos, (detail of head) ca. 430 B.C.

Roman copy, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

12.

 

 

Apoxyomenos of Lysippos, ca. 340 B.C.

Roman copy Vatican Museum

 

13.

 

 

Boxer, 1st century B.C.

Terme Museum, Rome