Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art by Walter Woodburn Hyde

Hyde, Walter Woodburn, 1871-1966

Chapter 157: 19. An unknown victor, of Argos or (?) Tegea.[2492] Aristotle mentions

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Chapter 157: 19. An unknown victor, of Argos or (?) Tegea.[2492] Aristotle mentions

an inscription from a statue of an Olympic victor in two passages of his _Rhetoric_.[2493] This epigram was repeated by Aristophanes of Byzantion,[2494] who wrongly ascribed it to Simonides.[2495] Where this statue stood can not be determined. Of the fourth century B. C.:
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