Title: Birth of Athena
1Birth of Athena
- Theogony 886-898
- Homeric Hymn to Athena (hymn 28)
- Masculine-femininity
- Virginity
- Parthenos- Parthenon
2Birth of Athena (6th century B.C.)
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4Birth of Athena 570 BC
5Detail of Kylix- birth of Athena from Zeus.
GreekNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
6Athens, c. 550 BCEshowing birth of Athena from
head of Zeus, with Hephaestus holding axe signed
by Phrynos as potter and attributed to the
Phrynos Painter. London, British Museum.
7Parthenon
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10The Parthenon (Myth-religion-politics)
- Built between 447-438 B.C.
- Triumph of Greeks over Persians (480)
- Complex program of decoration
- East pediment-birth of Athena
- West pediment-victory of Athena over Poseidon
(Athena with her spear grew an olive
tree-Poseidon a salt spring with his trident)
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13Diagram showing positions of sculptures 447-432
B.C.
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16METOPES Battle between Centaurs and
Lapiths-Representing struggle between justice and
chaos.
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18PEDIMENT SCULPTURES
- West end of the temple depicted the contest
between Poseidon and Athena, for who would be the
patron deity of Athens (Athena's gift of the
olive tree was preferred over Poseidon's spring).
- EAST pediment showed the birth of Athena from
Zeus' head. - The pedimental sculptures suffered badly when the
Parthenon was hit in 1687
19Parthenon FRIEZE
- The Parthenon frieze runs around the upper edge
of the temple wall. - Its relatively small size (3 feet 5 inches tall)
and placement (inside from the triglyphs and
metopes) made it fairly hard to see from the
ground. - Unlike the metopes, the frieze has a single
subject on all four sides. On three sides (north,
west, and south) - Procession of horsemen, musicians, sacrificial
animals, and other figures with various ritual
functions. PANATHENAIC procession. MYTH and
RITUAL
20Ivory comb, ca 600 BC
21Mourning Athena460 BC- Relief
22Bronze statuette holding owl c. 450 BC
23Birth of Erichthonios 450 BC
24Phrynos Painter, ca 560-550 BCbirth of Athena
25Athena Lanckoronski relief, 1st century BC
26Athena and Arachne-corinthian aryballos 600
BC-Corinth museum
27Judgement of Paris Cranach, Lucas, 1508
28Minerva victorious over Ignorance Spranger,
Bartholomeus, ca 1591
29Judgement of Paris Rubens, Peter Paul,
1635-1637
30Athena goddess-Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
31Athena Vienna statue