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    Athena Parthenos

    Title:Cult statue of Athena Parthenos
    Subject:Athena Parthenos armed and standing
    Function:CultClass:Free-standing statue
    Material:Chryselephantine
    Date:432 B.C.Period:High Classical
    Artist:Literary attestation to Pheidias
    Style:High Classical
    Context:From Athens, Acropolis
    Associated Building:Athens, Parthenon
    Original/Copy:Original (lost)Copies:
    Condition:Lost
    Technique:In-the-round
    Scale:Colossal

    Subject Description:

    As restored from copies, Athena probably stood with her weight on her right leg, and her left leg relaxed. She wore sandals, a peplos belted over the overfold, an aegis, and a helmet. A centauromachy was illustrated on the soles (?) of her sandals, and the helmet was decorated with griffins and sphinxes. On the palm of her outstretched (right?) hand she held a statue of Nike, and in the other she held a spear. At her feet rested a shield, within which (?) a serpent (representing Erichthonios) was coiled. The shield was decorated on the outside with an Amazonomachy, and on the inside with gigantomachy. On the statue base was illustrated the birth of Pandora, the progenitor of the race of women.

    Documentary References: Paus. 1.24.5-7; Pliny HN 36.18-19; Thuc. 2.13.5

    Sources Used: Pollitt 1990, 56-58

    Other Bibliography: Leipen 1971

    (Amy C. Smith)






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