of Auxerre (or Kore of Auxerre), held at the Louvre Museum in Paris, depicts an archaic Greek goddess of c. 650 - 625 BCE. It is a Kore ("maiden"), perhaps...
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the Goddess Roma and Augustus on the Acropolis at Athens". In Ostenfeld, E.N. (ed.). Greek Romans and Roman Greeks: Studies in Cultural Interaction. Aarhus...
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Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq) Athenian agora Anavysos Kouros Peplos Kore from the Acropolis Sarcophagus of the Spouses Audience Hall (apadana)...
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Justin Martyr takes issue with those pagans who erect at springs images of Kore, whom he interprets as Athena: "They said that Athena was the daughter of...
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and Boutes, and thrones of the temple priests. It is here that Athena's peplos might have been displayed. In the western section, there may have been the...
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himself—or the Venus Calypigia ("of beautiful buttocks"), which lifts her peplos to reveal her hips and buttocks, of which a Roman copy of a Hellenistic...
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"Naxian Sphinx" from Delphi, 570–560 BCE, the figure 222 cm (87 in) high Peplos Kore, c. 530 BCE, Athens, Acropolis Museum Late Archaic warrior from the east...
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Martin Robertson notes that both women can be seen wearing the tubular peplos garment common to the Classical period. According to the descriptive text...
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