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| Name: |
Agias |
| Picture: |
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| Description: |
By
Lysippos of Sikyon. Marble copy of a bronze original. Delphi Museum,
Delphi. H. 1.97m. A standing naked youth, his body twisted and relaxed
in the Lysippic 'S' shape. His weight rests on the right foot, through
the right hip, and his left foot is turned outwards slightly so that
the leg bends at the knee. The head is turned to the left. Originally,
the right hand would have held a victor's wreath. |
| Date: |
337-332 B.C. |
| Discussion: |
This
was originally the dedication of the Thessalian dynast Daochos of
Pharsalos at Delphi. Agias was a boxer who won athletic victories
in the late fifth century. A verse on the base beneath the figure
repeats that of a base from Larisa, home to the same Daochos, and
signed by Lysippos. We should imagine that the marble copy is a true
copy of the original bronze, although Pollitt 1986: 306 n. 4 exercises
caution on the attribution. See Robertson 1981: 168, fig. 228; Stewart
1990: 75-6, 188-90, 289-90; 552-3 (ills.). |
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