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

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

4. Birth of Athena 570 BC

5. Detail of Kylix- birth of Athena from Zeus. Greek New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

6. 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.

7. Parthenon

10. 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)

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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. Ivory comb, ca 600 BC

21. Mourning Athena 460 BC- Relief

22. Bronze statuette holding owl c. 450 BC

23. Birth of Erichthonios 450 BC

24. Phrynos Painter, ca 560-550 BC birth of Athena

25. Athena: Lanckoronski relief, 1st century BC

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

27. Judgement of Paris: Cranach, Lucas, 1508

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

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

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

31. Athena –Vienna statue