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Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art

Note 2455 — Chapter VIII · POSITIONS OF VICTOR STATUES IN THE ALTIS; OLYMPIC VICTOR MONUMENTS ERECTED OUTSIDE OLYMPIA; STATISTICS OF OLYMPIC VICTOR STATUARIES.2293

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He had the nickname Koalemos: Plut., Cimon, 4. He won two victories τεθρίππῳ in Ols. 62 and 64 ( = 532 and 524 B. C.); his horses, under the name of Peisistratos, won in the same event in Ol. 63 ( = 528 B. C.): Hdt., VI, 103; they were buried in front of the city beyond the so-called “Hollow Way,” opposite the tomb of Kimon; Hdt., l. c.; Plutarch, Cato Major, 5. Cf. Aelian, de Animal., XII, 40, where he says that the mares of Miltiades—meaning Kimon—were buried in the Kerameikos. See Foerster, 124, 128 and 132.

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