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A Few Words about Apoxyomenos

The picture on the cover of this book is from a photograph of the antiąue marble statuę, now in the Vatican in Romę, which was found in 1840 in a broken State at Trastivere. near Romę.

Apoxyomeno$ (Greek—the scraper) represents a young man clean--ing himself with a bronze scraper, after athletic exercises, of oil, sweat, and dust. The marble statuę is a copy of the bronze statuę, well known in ancient times, by the Greek sculptor Lysippos (360-316 B.C.).

Much has been writtcn about this statuę, but all concur in praising its beauty. and in admiring the Greeks. who, by means of their athletic sports and physical training, were able to produce human forms ht to serve as models for such sculpture.

I have expressly chosen Apoxyomenos from among the many beautiful statues of antiquity to decorate the cover of my book because he is the embodiment of the contents of it: he is the Athlete cleansing and caring for his skin after exercise. and is thus the Ideał towards which my book points.

Undcr this pseudonym, generally abbreviated to A por or Ap, I wrote for a number of years on Athletics in Danish papers.

MAM ANO RRINTSD IN ORBAI BRITAIN D V THE tTAKHOPE PRESS LTD.

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