1 / 31

Birth of Athena

Birth of Athena. Theogony 886-898 Homeric Hymn to Athena (hymn 28) Masculine-femininity Virginity Parthenos- Parthenon. Birth of Athena (6 th century B.C.). Birth of Athena 570 BC. Detail of Kylix- birth of Athena from Zeus. Greek New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

hall
Download Presentation

Birth of Athena

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Birth of Athena • Theogony 886-898 • Homeric Hymn to Athena (hymn 28) • Masculine-femininity • Virginity • Parthenos- Parthenon

  2. Birth of Athena (6th century B.C.)

  3. Birth of Athena 570 BC

  4. Detail of Kylix- birth of Athena from Zeus. GreekNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  5. Athens, 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.

  6. Parthenon

  7. The 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)

  8. Diagram showing positions of sculptures 447-432 B.C.

  9. METOPES: Battle between Centaurs and Lapiths-Representing struggle between justice and chaos.

  10. 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

  11. Parthenon 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

  12. Ivory comb, ca 600 BC

  13. Mourning Athena460 BC- Relief

  14. Bronze statuette holding owl c. 450 BC

  15. Birth of Erichthonios 450 BC

  16. Phrynos Painter, ca 560-550 BCbirth of Athena

  17. Athena: Lanckoronski relief, 1st century BC

  18. Athena and Arachne-corinthian aryballos 600 BC-Corinth museum

  19. Judgement of Paris: Cranach, Lucas, 1508

  20. Minerva victorious over Ignorance: Spranger, Bartholomeus, ca 1591

  21. Judgement of Paris: Rubens, Peter Paul, 1635-1637

  22. Athena goddess-Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

  23. Athena –Vienna statue

More Related