Diagoras, the Rhodian athlete, stood together (59-63), as Pausanias
says (VI, 7.1-2); one of them, that of Eukles (52), seems to have been
moved from its original position later, as we learn from a scholiast on
Pindar’s seventh Olympian ode,[2316] who, on the authority of the lost
works of Aristotle and Apollas on the Olympic victors,[2317] enumerates
these statues in an order different from that adopted by Pausanias,
showing that a change in their positions must have taken place some
time between the date of Aristotle and that of the Periegete.[2318]
The statues of Alkainetos and his son Hellanikos (64-65) must also
have stood together. Inasmuch as the victors from Euthymos to Lykinos
(56-68) are, with one exception, all pugilists or pancratiasts and of
the fifth century B. C., they must have been grouped together, with the
family groups of Diagoras and Alkainetos in the centre.[2319] We may
also add the statues of Dromeus and Pythokles[2320] (69-70) of nearly
the same date, and we can also extend the group in the other direction;
for the same scholiast says that the statue of Diagoras stood near that
of the Spartan Lysandros (35 a).[2321] Pausanias (VI, 3.14 and 4.1)
says that the statue of Lysandros stood between those of Pyrilampes and
Athenaios (35-36). Thus we can conclude that the 36 statues (35-70,
VI, 3.13-7.10) stood in the zone of the _Eretrian Bull_, extending
perhaps across the Altis to the vicinity of the Echo Colonnade along
its eastern boundary.
It would follow, then, that the intervening statues from Oibotas to
Xenophon (29-34, P., VI, 3.8-3.13) stood somewhere between the Heraion
and the _Eretrian Bull_. It is idle to discuss the route between these
two monuments more definitely.[2322]
Our next fixed point is the _Victory_ of Paionios, whose foundation
is still standing in its original position, 37 meters due east of
the southeast corner of the temple of Zeus.[2323] For, of the next
few statues mentioned, the base of that of Sosikrates (71) was found
“somewhere” east of the temple, that of Kritodamos (80) before
the “Southeast Building,” and that of Xenokles (85), 4 meters to
the northeast of the _Victory_ base, presumably near its original
position.[2324] Pausanias groups the three Arkadian athletes,
Euthymenes-Kritodamos (78-80, P., VI, 8.5); then, after naming four
statues of victors from other states, he mentions two more Arkadians
together, Xenokles and Alketos (85-86, VI, 9.2); and he continues by
saying that the statues of the Argives Aristeus and Cheimon (87-88, VI,
9.3) stood together. One more statue, that of Phillen or Philys[2325]
of Elis (89), is named before he comes to the chariot of Gelo. Thus we
may conclude that the series of statues denoted by the numbers 71-89
(P., VI, 8.1-9.4) stood to the south of the _Eretrian Bull_ in the
parallel zone of the _Victory_.
We next come to the series of statues mentioned between the chariots
of Gelo and Kleosthenes (90-99). The position of the bases of these
chariots is practically certain. In describing the statues of Zeus in