The Athena Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active about 490 to 460 BC. His speciality were white-ground lekythoi painted in the black-figure...
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The Athena Promachos (Ἀθηνᾶ Πρόμαχος, "Athena who fights in the front line") was a colossal bronze statue of Athena sculpted by Pheidias, which stood...
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rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated...
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vases have survived. The Athena Painter (who is perhaps identical with the red-figure Bowdoin Painter) and the Perseus Painter continued to decorate large...
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other deities for winning the patronage of the city. According to legend, Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens after a competition with...
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mythology, a little owl (Athene noctua) traditionally represents or accompanies Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom, or Minerva, her syncretic incarnation in...
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Andokides Painter Antimenes Painter Athena Painter Beldam Painter Bellerophon Painter Castellani Painter Cerameicus Painter Chimera Painter Chiusi Painter Daybreak...
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Circe and Odysseus, white-ground lekythos by the Athena Painter, ca. 490–480 BC. From Eretria National Archaeological Museum in Athens, 1133....
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Temple of Athena Lindia was a sanctuary in Lindos in Rhodes, dedicated to the goddess Athena. It was a significant Pan-Hellenic shrine of Athena and arguably...
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the statues of the goddess Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon, and the Athena Promachos, a colossal bronze...
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Nike (mythology) (category Epithets of Athena)
another deity such as Athena. In Greek literature Nike is described as both an attribute and attendant to the gods Zeus and Athena. Nike gained this honored...
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The Columbus Painter was an ancient Corinthian vase painter in the black-figure style; his real name is unknown. He was active during the transitional...
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Arachne (category Deeds of Athena)
how the talented mortal Arachne challenged the goddess Athena to a weaving contest. When Athena could find no flaws in the tapestry Arachne had woven for...
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The Goltyr Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style. He was active in the second quarter of the sixth century BC. He is well known...
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Hephaestus (category Deeds of Athena)
preface to Fabulae. In the account of Attic vase painters, Hephaestus was present at the birth of Athena and wields the axe with which he split Zeus' head...
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The Chrysis Painter was an anonymous ancient Greek red-figure vase painter who worked in Athens around 420–410 BC. He is identified by his name vase, a...
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student of Pamphaios. He established his own workshop in Attica with the Athena Painter,: 84 and together they specialized in the production of skyphoi, lekythoi...
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The Gela Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter. His real name is unknown. His long career started around the turn of the 6th and 5th centuries...
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Aegis (category Symbols of Athena)
Ancient Greek: αἰγίς aigís), as stated in the Iliad, is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes...
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Gorgons (category Deeds of Athena)
Amasis Painter, British Museum B 471 (mid-sixth century BC). Fig. 8. Winged curl-haired Gorgon (Medusa) being decapitated by Perseus aided by Athena; fragment...
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the Greek hero Bellerophon, near the fountain Peirene, with the help of Athena and Poseidon. Pegasus allowed Bellerophon to ride him in order to defeat...
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Giants (Greek mythology) (category Deeds of Athena)
identified as Alcyoneus, fights Athena. Below and to the right of Athena, Gaia rises from the ground, touching Athena's robe in supplication. Flying above...
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The Temple of Athena Alea was a sanctuary at Tegea in Ancient Greece, dedicated to Athena under the epithet Athena Alea; a syncretization between the Olympian...
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The Codrus Painter was a Greek vase-painter of the Attic red-figure style, who flourished between 440 and 420 BC. His actual name is unknown and his conventional...
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The Athena of Velletri or Velletri Pallas is a type of classical marble statue of Athena, wearing a helmet. All statues of this type are 1st century Roman...
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Athena LaTocha is an American artist based in New York artist. Her mixed-media works focus on humans' relationships to natural landscapes. She is of Hunkpapa...
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The Berlin Painter (active c. 490–460s BC) is the conventional name given to an Attic Greek vase-painter who is widely regarded as among the most talented...
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Medusa (category Deeds of Athena)
to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity, the image of the head of...
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Painter is a painting on a red-figure amphora from the Classical period of Greece. It is the work of the Suessula Painter, an Athenian vase-painter whose...
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Troy, Cassandra sought shelter in the temple of Athena. There she embraced the wooden statue of Athena in supplication for her protection, but was abducted...
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