Victorious athlete: The Vaison Daidoumenos
Winners in the ancient Olympics were allowed to set up statues of themselves at Olympia. If they won three times they could set up specially commissioned portrait statues which could cost up to ten times the average yearly wage.
Senior curator, Judith Swaddling describes the Daidoumenos
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