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264 THE COLUMN OF THE DANCING WOMEN
women of the acanthus column as the Delphians who,
according to the hymn on the treasury of the Athenians
(p. 165), danced in honour of Apollo. These are I they
of whom Pindar sings 1 : “ Round Parnassus’ high cliffs
the bright-eyed Delphian maidens enter the fleet chorus
and sing a sweet song with clear voices.” We might con-
ceive of the acanthus column as erected by a Delphian in
memory of a victory won by such a dancing chorus, showing
over the fleet maidens, whose dancing won the victory,
the actual prize of the conflict, the tripod, the sacred symbol
of Apollo. But it was evidently an Attic artist of the circle
of Praxiteles who executed the work, and therefore it is
naturally possible to see in the group a reflex of the famous
Praxitelean “ Caryatids or Thyiades.”
1 Oxyrhynchus Papyri, v. 27 f. and 82 f.; Pindar, J. E. Sandys, 524, v. 96 f.
women of the acanthus column as the Delphians who,
according to the hymn on the treasury of the Athenians
(p. 165), danced in honour of Apollo. These are I they
of whom Pindar sings 1 : “ Round Parnassus’ high cliffs
the bright-eyed Delphian maidens enter the fleet chorus
and sing a sweet song with clear voices.” We might con-
ceive of the acanthus column as erected by a Delphian in
memory of a victory won by such a dancing chorus, showing
over the fleet maidens, whose dancing won the victory,
the actual prize of the conflict, the tripod, the sacred symbol
of Apollo. But it was evidently an Attic artist of the circle
of Praxiteles who executed the work, and therefore it is
naturally possible to see in the group a reflex of the famous
Praxitelean “ Caryatids or Thyiades.”
1 Oxyrhynchus Papyri, v. 27 f. and 82 f.; Pindar, J. E. Sandys, 524, v. 96 f.