Olympic Victor Monuments And Greek Athletic Art

Author : Walter Woodburn Hyde
Publisher : Washington, Carnegie Inst.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art written by Walter Woodburn Hyde and published by Washington, Carnegie Inst.. This book was released on 1921 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While today's Olympic victors are awarded with the iconic gold, silver and bronze Olympic medals, Olympic champions in the ancient Greek world were memorialized in monuments erected at Olympia and elsewhere. In this 1921 volume, Walter Woodburn Hyde provides a thorough study of statues and other works of art completed in honor of Olympic victors, examining the general characteristics of victor statues found in Olympia and other Greek sites, the features of victor statues represented at rest, and the elements of victor statues represented in motion (think the famous "Discus Thrower.") For art historians, historians of ancient Greece or anyone just curious about the perks of being a famous athlete in the ancient Greek world, this richly illustrated work offers an interesting look at this little-known aspect of the ancient Greek Olympics.

Author : W. W. Hyde
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Total Pages : 406 pages
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Author : Walter Woodburn Hyde
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332954667
Total Pages : 496 pages
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Download or read book Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Woodburn Hyde and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art The purpose of the present work is to study what is known of one of the most important genres of Greek sculpture - the monuments erected at Olympia and elsewhere in the Greek world in honor of victorious athletes at the Olympic games. Since only meagre remnants of these monuments have survived, the work is in the main concerned with the attempt to reconstruct their various types and poses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Walter Woodburn Hyde
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230859583
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art written by Walter Woodburn Hyde and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... the sort was run at the Eleutheria at Plata?a, where the contestants were completely enveloped in armor5 and were subject to peculiar rules. At Olympia the competitors originally ran with helmets, greaves, and round shields, as we infer from scenes on archaic vases and from the statement of Pausanias that the statue of the first victor in this event, Damaretos of Heraia, was represented with these arms.6 In this passage Pausanias adds that the Eleans and other Greeks later (iva xpbvov) gave up the greaves, and we find that they disappear on the vase-paintings.7 Hauser has shown that the vase-paintings, which, however, mostly illustrate the Athenian practice, display a varied custom in respect of the use of the greaves before about 520 B.C., the general use of them until about 450 B. C., and after that date their disuse.8 The helmet disappeared after the greaves, but the shield was never given up.1 Thus the bronze statue of Mnesiboulos of Elateia, a victor (ovv rfj dcnridi) of Pausanias' day, which stood in "Runner Street" of his native city, appears to have been represented with the shield.3 It was for this reason that the event was later sometimes called merely ao-7ris.3 The shields that appear on the vases are always round and the helmets are Attic.4 The gradual reduction in the amount of the armor may have been a concession to the regular athletes, who probably looked upon the contest as a spurious sort of athletics. As for the style of the race, the hoplite runners seem to have run somewhat as the stade and double-course runners, i. e., with their right hands up and their arms violently swinging.6 1See Lange, Das Motif des aufgestuetzten Fusses, 1879, pp. 9 f.; Reisch, p. 46, n. 5; B. B., no. 67 (Paris copy); von Mach, 238a...

Author : Walter Woodburn Hyde
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Total Pages : 405 pages
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Author : Walter Woodburn Hyde
Publisher : Washington, Carnegie Inst.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art written by Walter Woodburn Hyde and published by Washington, Carnegie Inst.. This book was released on 1921 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While today's Olympic victors are awarded with the iconic gold, silver and bronze Olympic medals, Olympic champions in the ancient Greek world were memorialized in monuments erected at Olympia and elsewhere. In this 1921 volume, Walter Woodburn Hyde provides a thorough study of statues and other works of art completed in honor of Olympic victors, examining the general characteristics of victor statues found in Olympia and other Greek sites, the features of victor statues represented at rest, and the elements of victor statues represented in motion (think the famous "Discus Thrower.") For art historians, historians of ancient Greece or anyone just curious about the perks of being a famous athlete in the ancient Greek world, this richly illustrated work offers an interesting look at this little-known aspect of the ancient Greek Olympics.

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Author : Alison Futrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192509586
Total Pages : 769 pages
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Author : D.G. Kyle
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004276629
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Author : Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Total Pages : 218 pages
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