CLAS 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Tmolus, Boeotia, Metaphor

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

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Athena; it was not i who blinded tiresias; it was laws of cronus, whoever sees any of the immortal, when the god does nto choose, let him pray the price of seeing. Pallas athena: goddess with bright eyes, quick min, inflexible heart, chast and might virgin, protectress of city tritogeneia. Athenna = basic characteristics of goddess: prowess, wisdom and masculinity of her virgin nature spring not from female but the male. Parthenon; great them to athena parthenos ( parthenos ; virgin) on acropolis in athenis; 447 and 438 bc: embodied greek trimpu over persions who sacked acropolis in 480 and destroyed the old parthenon; Parthenon like temple of zeus: comples program of sculpture. In which myhtolgoy nad religion glorified the city nadi ts god honoring athena = great statue: whole program directedby pheidias, creatoe of statue of zeus at olympi.