Classical Mythology

ATHENA 159 all honoring Athena, whose great statue was housed in the temple. The whole pro- gram was directed by Pheidias, creat ...

160 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Figure 8.2. Sectional Drawing of the East End of the Parthenon Showing Relationship of Friez ...

ATHENA 161 brate the festival of the Panathenaea in honor of their goddess. Athenian men and women are shown as marshals, attend ...

162 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Athena Parthenos. Reconstruction by N. Leipen of the original by Pheidias, 447-438 B.C.; abo ...

ATHENA 163 birth Athena was reared by Triton (presumably the god of this body of water, wherever it may be). Now Triton had a da ...

164 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS she realized what she had done; in her grief she made a wooden image of the girl and decked ...

ATHENA 165 Athena. Detail from an Attic red-figure amphora by the Andocides Painter, ca. 520 B.c.; height of vase 22V2 in. Athen ...

166 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Ovid goes on to describe the weaving contest. Each weaves a tapestry at her loom with surpas ...

ATHENA 167 in a more generic and abstract conception. She is skilled in the taming and train- ing of horses, interested in ships ...

168 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Mourning Athena. Marble relief from the Acropolis, ca. 460 B.c.; height 21 in. Athena is a y ...

ATHENA 169 oning progress and the advanced enlightenment of civilization. As the agent of Zeus, Athena brings the Odyssey to a c ...

170 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and the friezes are in the British Museum in London and known as the Elgin mar- bles. There ...

CHAPTER 9 APHRODITE AND EROS As we have seen, Hesiod describes the birth of Aphrodite after the castration of Uranus and derives ...

(^172) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS The Birth of Aphrodite. Ca. 460 B.C.: marble, height (at corner) 33 in. In this three-sid ...

APHRODITE AND EROS 173 ...

174 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS The gamut of the conceptions of the goddess of love is reflected in sculpture as well as lit ...

APHRODITE AND EROS 175 The Godhead Fires. By Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898); oil in canvas, 1878, 39 X 30 in. This is the third ...

176 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS f cause they dared to deny her divinity; in her wrath, the goddess caused them to be the fir ...

APHRODITE AND EROS 177 The goddess is present at the marriage that she has made, and now when the crescent moon had become full ...

178 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS the ritual of my grief performed. But your blood will be transformed into a flower. O Persep ...