Olive sprig to left.
Birth of athena attic wine cup.
The goddess athena in full armour springs out of the head of an enthroned zeus.
Odysseus companions bring more wine from the left.
Athena depicted as a child brandishes a spear and is equipped with a shield and a peaked helm.
Athena stands behind odysseus as his guardian.
Birth of athena by painter of berlin 1686 c.
She changed into various creatures such as hawks fish and serpents.
Athena stands upon the lap of zeus following her birth from his brow.
The main side of the cup depicts athena the greek warrior goddess confronting two partially hidden opponents.
Attic black figure band cup c.
Athena also spelled athene in greek religion the city protectress goddess of war handicraft and practical reason identified by the romans with minerva she was essentially urban and civilized the antithesis in many respects of artemis goddess of the outdoors athena was probably a pre hellenic goddess and was later taken over by the greeks.
Helmeted bust of athena right a above θ h across fields standing right wings open tail left amphora in right.
490 470 bce hercules and the serpents with athena by berlin painter c.
The year 490 bc was a memorable one for the people of athens.
The king of the gods is seated on a stool and holds a royal sceptre in his hand.
By having the two opponents take shelter behind them the unknown vase painter cleverly incorporated the large eyes which ornament both sides of the cup into the narrative.
Yet the greek economy unlike that of the.
Athena pouring wine to hercules cup by douris painter c.
The pair are flanked by the twin eileithyiae birth goddesses who act as midwives with raised arms.
In the 500s b c greek vase painters frequently placed eyes on cups perhaps because they were believed to be apotropaic that is they had the power to ward off evil or so that the cup would be transformed into a mask when a drinker raised it to.
A pair of large eyes frames busts of the hero herakles and his patron goddess athena on one side of this black figure cup.
Archaic head of athena right in crested attic helmet aθe with archaic θ owl standing right head facing.
And the modern marathon was born when a messenger with good news supposedly ran 26 miles to the city before dropping dead.
Polyphemos is the central figure kneeling on one knee in a state of drunkenness.
Work commenced on the first temple of athena parthenos on the acropolis.
Metis tried to escape going so far as to change her form many times.
According to the greeks athena was born in this astonishing manner after her father zeus had swallowed her pregnant mother metis the goddess of wisdom.
The birth is depicted in great detail on the shoulder of this amphora.
550 bce athena and votary by myson c.
10 000 of the city s soldiers crushed the much larger persian army of darius the great.
Odysseus appears at right with an oinochoe containing more wine.
A large break.
