Rape of Cassandra:Athena Pallas, Cassandra, Ajax

Man Using Olive Oil and Strigil to clean self

Acropolis at Athens (Sacred to Athena)

Parthenon

Corner of Athenian Parthenon (Temple of Athena) showing some squares below a pediment

Centauromachy on South Side of Parthenon Recreation in Nashville, TN

Athena’s Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis

Recreation of the Western Pediment of Athena’s Parthenon on the Athenian

Acropolis

Vase Painting c. 450 BC:Possible Copy of the Parthenon’s Western Pediment (Athenian Acropolis)

East Side (Entrance) of Parthenon(Athenian Acropolis)

Helios (beard) in sun chariot (Nyx or Selene in upper left, Eos (Aurora) on upper right)

Selene (Moon) w/ circle over head & stars behind

Apollo Phoebus on sun chariot

Apollo Kouros w/ left hand holding absent bow

Apollo Statue at Delphi (Chryselephantine)

Athena Parthenos (as modeled on statue at Athena’s Parthenon)

Gorgoneion as woman (post 450 BC, based on Pheidias’s model)

Athena Parthenos again

Athena Parthenos replica (3/4, Nashville, TN)

Leto (grabbing palm tree) on Delos giving birth to Apollo and Artemis

Apollo Kouros (w/ bow & quiver) pulling giant off of his mom Leto

Apollo Daphnephoros w/ laurel branch and wreath on head

Apollo Delphi as Prophet (cup, c. 450 BC): lyre, Raven, libation to self, laurel wreath, women’s clothes, lion-leg

chair

Athlete carrying tripod trophy (sacred to Apollo)

Apollo Delphi as Prophet: playing lyre, with left raven looking back, right raven looking ahead

Delphi Archaeological Site

City-State Gift Storehouse (“Embassy”) at Delphi

Pythia Giving Oracle at Delphi: on a

tripod, holding bay leaves and libation bown, inside/below temple (column) w/ translator priest

Apollo Shown sitting on tripod, with Pythia to right touching him (shows special

connection to the god)

One Omphalos from Delphi

Cathartic Apollo: God (center) pushing away evil spirit

(left) to purify a man hugging the omphalos (right of column); tripods and column in background show it as Delphi

Sphinx from Delphi (originally on a 40-foot column)

Oedipus (with traveling hat, contemplating the riddle) and the Sphinx

Sphinx, rising in preparation to rape two young men (who presumably got the riddle wrong,

and are hiding in their cloaks)

Two marble grave-marker columns for young men, topped with sphinx

(guarding graves, too?)

Possible Early (c. 4000 BC) Artemis: Sitting, giving birth between two animals or on an animal throne