this victor stood upon the Athenian Akropolis, erected, as he supposes,
in honor of his beauty and reputation as an Olympic victor (I, 28.1).
Kylon was the leader of the well-known conspiracy of 632 B. C., when
he tried to make himself tyrant of Athens.[2445] Furtwaengler has
proposed the theory that this monument was not set up in honor of Kylon
by the Athenians, as Pausanias says, but that it was a dedication by
his family after his Olympic victory.[2446] A. Schaefer,[2447] however,
more justly believed that the statue was an expiatory offering for the
massacre of Kylon’s companions on the Akropolis,[2448] set up in the
time of Perikles, the date of which would account for the “beauty” of
the statue. Still another scholar[2449] believes that Pausanias’ remark
was called forth by the epigram on the statue.[2450]