statue of the pancratiast Hermolykos as standing on the Akropolis
at Athens (I, 23.10). This was probably Hermolykos the pancratiast,
who is recorded by Herodotos as having distinguished himself at the
battle of Mykale in 479 B. C., and as having been afterwards killed in
battle at Kyrnos in Euboia and buried at Geraistos.[2556] Some scholars
have advocated the theory that the portrait statue here mentioned by
Pausanias was none other than the statue which stood on the Akropolis
on the base which was discovered in 1839, dedicated by Hermolykos,
the son of Diitrephes, the work of the sculptor Kresilas,[2557]
and that the Periegete mistook the latter for the one mentioned by
Herodotos.[2558] However, Frazer finds this explanation “arbitrary and
highly improbable,” and believes that the base in question supported
the statue of Diitrephes, pierced with arrows, also mentioned by
Pausanias (I, 23.3).[2559] Kirchhoff distinguished not only the statue
of Hermolykos mentioned by Pausanias and the dedication of Hermolykos
revealed by the recovered base, but both of these from the statue of
the wounded man mentioned by Pliny (_H. N._, XXXIV, 74). While J. Six
assumed that Hermolykos, son of Diitrephes, dedicated the Kresilæan
statue in honor of his grandfather Hermolykos, son of Euthoinos, and
that Pausanias wrongly gathered from the inscribed base that the statue
represented Diitrephes,[2560] Furtwaengler believed that Diitrephes was
the older warrior of the name, mentioned by Thukydides,[2561] and that
Pausanias, who knew nothing of him, wrongly connected his statue with
the younger one of that name.[2562]