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Figure 26.2 Athena Promachos (reverse of fig. 26.1) ...

slightly ironic, because for the Greek athletes who won the vases the contents were undoubtedly as important as the container (i ...

battle, the last challenge to the authority of the Olympians, held particular signifi- cance for the Athenians as we shall see, ...

would house the statue of Athena Parthenos, was started in 447 BC. The statue was dedicated in 438 BC, and the last of the archi ...

we know, there was no priestess of Athena Parthenos and there was no altar in front of it where sacrifices could be performed as ...

you moved into the porch you would see on the east frieze the assembled deities and on either side of them mortals with thepeplo ...

Nike and with the other she supported her shield on the inside of which was a depiction of the Gigantomachy. The depictions of t ...

In early depictions of the Gigantomachy, Apollo fights alongside his sister Artemis, and they both use their bows, which are the ...

groves, to potters, to painters, and to women who weave, all of whom look to Athena as their patron. Ultimately, with the Parthe ...

it is one of the few scenes that include the god to whom the offering is being made along with the sacrificers (Figure 26.8). Fo ...

we know that it holds the sacrificial knife as well as barley corn; later it can be used to hold the organs of the animal. With ...

accompany the ritual. He wears aphorbia, a leather strap that holds the mouthpiece of the instrument to his lips. The priest her ...

Figure 26.10 Phineus raising his hands in prayer as he addresses the gods on an Attic red- figure neck-amphora from Nola ca. 460 ...

male and a female holding offering bowls (phialai), presumably a god and a goddess, sit in a temple in front of which is an alta ...

Behind the temple, with his back to it, is a professional aulete in a long, ornately decoratedchito ̄nand aphorbeia. By him are ...

suggesting that these are figures from myth. The last of the ‘‘Lenaia’’stamnoi, ca. 420 BC, has women given names used exclusive ...

It should be clear by now that treating depictions of religious activity on vases as evidence for actual practices needs to be d ...

On the white-groundle ̄kythoithe vast majority of the scenes show mourners visiting the tomb or at home preparing for such a vis ...

and each of the thousands of objects placed on the Acropolis was put there with one god or another in mind. Thus these products ...

comprehensive survey of the history and archaeology of the Acropolis. Raubitschek 1949 remains the standard work on dedicatory i ...