Transcript Ivory comb, ca 600 BC - UC Irvine, OpenCourseWare

Birth of Athena
 Theogony
886-898
 Homeric Hymn to Athena (hymn 28)
 Masculine-femininity
 Virginity
 Parthenos- Parthenon
Birth of Athena (6th century B.C.)
Birth of Athena 570 BC
Detail of Kylix- birth of Athena from Zeus. Greek
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Athens, c. 550 BCE
showing 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.
Parthenon
The Parthenon (Myth-religionpolitics)
 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)
Diagram showing positions of
sculptures 447-432 B.C.
METOPES: Battle between Centaurs and
Lapiths-Representing struggle between justice
and chaos.
PEDIMENT 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
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Parthenon FRIEZE
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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
Ivory comb, ca 600 BC
Mourning Athena
460 BC- Relief
Bronze statuette holding owl
c. 450 BC
Birth of Erichthonios 450 BC
Phrynos Painter, ca 560-550 BC
birth of Athena
Athena: Lanckoronski relief, 1st
century BC
Athena and Arachne-corinthian
aryballos 600 BC-Corinth
museum
Judgement of Paris:
Cranach, Lucas, 1508
Minerva victorious over Ignorance:
Spranger, Bartholomeus, ca 1591
Judgement of Paris:
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1635-1637
Athena goddess-Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Athena –Vienna statue