The bronze statue of Athena known as the Piraeus Athena. Modern reconstruction made by Alan LeQuire and housed at the replica of the Parthenon in Nashville. Athena Parthenos by Phidias. Definition. Original video by The British Museum. Our mission is to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide. He began working on it in 1982.

The name Parthenon derives from one of Athena’s many epithets: Athena Parthenos, meaning Virgin. The sculptor was already famous for his colossal The Athena Parthenos was, then, a gigantic statue which, according to Pliny, was around 11.5 metres tall (26 cubits) and was made of carved ivory for flesh parts and gold (1140 kilos or 44 talents of it) for everything else, all wrapped around a wooden core. Testimony to the statue’s lasting artistic legacy is the long line of contemporary and subsequent copies in As mentioned above the best preserved and most complete representation of Pheidias’ lost masterpiece is the ‘‘Varvakeion statuette’ which is a 1.05 metre tall Roman copy in marble from the 2nd century CE and which now resides in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

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The cutting in the temple floor in which the central support The statue represented Athena standing majestic, fully armed and holding a 4 cubit tall statue of The shield of the statue was a wonder in itself and much copied in later antiquity. Indeed, there is evidence that the temple was built to measure in order to accommodate the chryselephantine (gold and ivory)  statue of Athena by Pheidias. He holds an MA in Political Philosophy and is the Publishing Director at AHE. Thank you!Numerous educational institutions recommend us, including We have also been recommended for educational use by the following publications:Some Rights Reserved (2009-2020) under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise noted.

The name Parthenon derives from one of Athena’s many epithets: Athena Parthenos, meaning Virgin. (en) Neda Leipen, Athena Parthenos: A Reconstruction, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1971. Athena Parthenos; 1st century BCE copy by Athenian sculptor Antiochus... Tennessee), M. H. (. Athena Parthenos (Ancient Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ Παρθένος) is a lost massive chryselephantine (gold and ivory) sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena, made by Phidias and his assistants and housed in the Parthenon in Athens; this statue was designed as its focal point. According to Pliny, it depicted scenes from the Battles of The statue must have been nothing less than awe-inspiring and the richness of it - both artistically and literally - must have sent a very clear message of the wealth and power of the city that could produce such a tribute to their patron god and of the power of the goddess herself.

A detail of a marble copy of the Athena Parthenos which stood in... A. T. N. P. (2012, September 26). Although richly decorated on the outside with magnificent decorative sculpture, the most important sculpture was always intended to be the giant statue of Athena inside it. For only $5 per month you can become a member and support our mission to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide.Our latest articles delivered to your inbox, once a week:Numerous educational institutions recommend us, including We have also been recommended for educational use by the following publications:Some Rights Reserved (2009-2020) under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise noted.by Mary Harrsch (Photographed at the Nashville Parthenon, Tennessee) (CC BY-NC-SA)Although richly decorated on the outside with magnificent decoration, the most important Extra embellishments were rendered using glass, The statue stood on a pedestal measuring 4.09 by 8.04 metres, faced the east door, and was surrounded by the Doric columns of a peristyle set inside the cella. Greek Architecture. Embedded by Mark Cartwright, published on 07 February 2016. His special interests include pottery, architecture, world mythology and discovering the ideas that all civilizations share in common. (en) Robert Ousterhout, « "Bestride the Very Peak of Heaven" : The Parthenon After Antiquity », dans Jenifer Neils (dir. Chryselephantine Statue of Athena Parthenos made by Phidias: Modern Reconstruction of the Athena Parthenos. Other full figures, albeit with some damage, include the ‘Lenormant statuette’, another Roman copy, 2nd or 3rd century CE, 42 cm tall (also in Athens); the 86 cm tall ‘Patras statuette’ (in Patras); a 1.54 m tall figure now in Boston, and a Hellenistic version from Ancient History Encyclopedia Foundation is a non-profit organization. In front of the statue, sunk into the flooring, was a large but shallow tank of water. Please support Ancient History Encyclopedia Foundation. Although richly decorated on the outside with magnificent decorative sculpture, the most importa… (en) Jenifer Neils, The Parthenon Frieze, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 316 p. (ISBN 978-0-521-68402-6). Parthenos 'maiden, virgin' was an epithet of Athena. A plaque relief depicting a Greek pursuing an Amazon.