The Parthenon Enigma (126 page)

Birth of Athena, east pediment, Parthenon. (illustration credit
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Contest of Athena and Poseidon, west pediment, Parthenon. (illustration credit
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Maiden basket bearer leads sacrificial procession toward Athena’s altar at far left, behind which Athena and her priestess stand, as male worshipper approaches. Attic black-figure cup, ca. 550 B.C. Private collection (illustration credit
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Akanthos finial akroterion, Parthenon. © Acropolis Museum (illustration credit
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Life-size replica of Pheidias’s statue of Athena Parthenos by A. LeQuire, Centennial Park Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee. (illustration credit
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Processional route along the Panathenaic Way from the Kerameikos to the Acropolis. (illustration credit
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Owl perched upon altar as male worshipper approaches; sheep and bull await sacrifice, black-figure hydria. Uppsala University Antikensammlung 352 (illustration credit
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Pheidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to His Friends
, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1868. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery © Birmingham Museums Trust (illustration credit
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