#athena statue

[athenepromachos]

Athena Piraeus. Discovered in 1959, the 8ft tall bronze statue of the Goddess dates to second half of the 4th Century BC. 🏺🏛

#athena #athena statue #bronze athena #bronze statue #goddess of wisdom #goddess #greek goddess #greek mythology #athens #athenian #piraeus #aegis #she who shall defend #owl #the grey eyed one #lady athena #daughter of zeus #metis #war strategy #my goddess #⚔️🏛 #greece #ancient greece #greek art #sculpture

[anthonyspage]

⛰🏛👸👼👸

#Paint By Number: Ancient Civilization #Athens #Athena #Nike #Goddess #Divine #Deity #Athena Statue #Nike Statue #Angel #Angel Statue #Magical Creatures #Mystical Creatures #Supernatural Creatures #Magic #Magical #Mystical #Supernatural #Mountain #Birds #Temple #Greek #Greece #Art #App #Adult Colouring Book #Adult Coloring Book #Paint By Number #My Post #My Upload

[bloodiedflora]

I was just doodling stuff for a comm sheet but I ended up rendering this so!! Athene!!

#athena #athene #pallas athena #greek mythology #greek gods #mythology art #art #artwork #digital art #digital painting #portrait #based on a statue that’s part of a bigger monument probably somewhere in Italy by giovanni lombardi I thinks? #bloodiedflora art

[notacluedo]

he’s her fun lil social experiment

#Thinking about when my classics teacher said that the relationship between Athene and Odysseus is one of the most tender #Relationships between man and god #Like it’s almost platonic but not really #Like she’s his cool aunt #Who saves his life #But also treats his life like a fun lil game #But she also really likes him and favours him #Like I see Athene as aro ace so like idk but she holds some ‘love’ for him #shes kinda meant to look like a statue #Or whatever #athena #odysseus #the odyssey #mythology art #my art #greek myth #Tap for better quality I think

[rapha-reads]

No but I gotta talk about Medusa for a minute actually.

It's been. A very long time since I read the PJO books so I don't exactly remember how Uncle Rick presents Medusa in the book. But the way the show introduces her myth? Fascinating. For me as a Greek mythology enthusiast, that is.

The show makes Medusa a victim of Athena. Of course, the show is mainly for kids, so they can't exactly say that, hey, kids, Medusa was Athena's priestess and she was raped by Poseidon, YEP, or protagonist's father, IN Athena's temple, nah, that's neither kid-friendly nor does it endears us to Poseidon. Not that Poseidon is very dear to us viewers/readers at this point, our narrator/protagonist can't stand his own dad.

But still what fascinates me is that even though they twisted the myth to ft the narrative they still managed to evoke Athena's curse as being actually a gift, and Medusa not feeling wretched over her condition but blessed.

Which is not a modern reading of the myth, actually. Saying that Athena couldn't punish Poseidon for his transgression and could only punish Medusa, but did so in a way that would give Medusa weapons to defend herself against whoever and whatever would try to harm her again, is a narrative that exists since Antiquity.

My point is that the re-framing of Medusa's myth, departing from the traditional, non-kid-friendly version while still incorporating both classic and modern elements, is a good frame of reference for the series (book and show)' entire approach to mythology. And I guess I'm saying that mostly for the non-book readers who are discovering this world, many of whom might be Greek mythology fans and might have gone "wait, why is Hades AGAIN presented as the bad guy when he's the chillest, most normal, most stable god in this entire pantheon", because that's a conversation the book fandom has been having (over and over again) for more than a decade.

Anyway, yeah. As a long time book fan and a show appreciative, here's my advice to anyone who knows WAY too much about Greek myths and still want to enjoy the ride without going every five minutes "wait, that's not correct": reframe. Contemporary rewritings, modern audiences and Fantasy genre.

#pjo series #pjo series spoilers #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #rick riordan #medusa #greek myths #greek mythology #rapha talks #the funny thing is that one of the art exhibition i've been giving tours of these past couple of months is about goddesses #and it has some statues and objects about both athena and medusa so i've been talking a lot about these two for weeks now #so even though i still remember some from the books and i know damn well uncle rick's priority wasn't myth accuracy #i still got a bit floored by the planet-size holes in medusa's myth in the show #not enough to dislike the episode (au contraire i quite enjoyed it) but enough to feel compelled to say a word about it #(can you tell my special interest as a weird little girl was greek mythology and how it still is to this day...)

[transbutchbluess]

blurry pic bc it’s too dark and they’re not even on my altars yet but my mother got me these !? i’m so happy. this might give me the motivation to clean my altars and start worshipping again

#athena !! and apollon !! #i’m so happy #the apollon one must have had something in his hand (maybe a lyre ?) that broke but idc it’s pretty #also there’s a snake on the statue and i’ve decided it’s asklepios #always staying with his father !! #helpol #hellenic polytheism #apollon #athena #apollo #ancient greek art

[escapismsworld]

The piercing gaze of the ancient Greeks.

A collection of some famous Greek sculptures looking directly at...you

From left to right:

1) Antikythera Philosopher, 250 BCE

2) Athena of Piraeus, 4th century BCE

3) Head of Hygeia, 5th-4th cen. BCE

4) Antikythera Ephebe, 4th cent. BCE

5) Unknown man from Delos, c. 100

BCE

6) Head of a Goddess, 2nd cent. CE

📸 ArysPan

#dark academia #light academia #academia aesthetic #classical #academia #escapism #classic literature #books #books and libraries #architecture #greek #statue #sculpture #eyes #antikythera #Athena of Piraeus #Head of Hygeia #royal core #cottage core #aesthetic

[glitchy-anime-fan]

Athena when Odysseus doesn’t listen to her and something goes wrong:

(Mattei Athena at Louvre. Roman copy from the 1st century BC/AD after a Greek original of the 4th century BC attributed to Cephisodotos or Euphranor.)

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #epic the musical #athena #statue of Athena #I’m so sorry #this is so dumb #😭😭😭 #greek mythology memes #she looks like she’s judging you for doing something stupid 💀 #alternatively: #Athena @ Odysseus after Poseidon sinks 12 of Odys ships as revenge for them blinding Polyphemus

[justaz]

i’m torn between percy being the kind of boyfriend to see the love of his life laying on the bed facing away from him and him coming up to kiss her cheek, give her a massage, etc. or seeing his best friend turned away from him, unsuspecting, and slapping her ass with the force of a thousand suns. the only thing i know for a fact is annabeth slaps his ass every time she sees him. he doesn’t even need to be laying down. he could be talking to zeus while she doing her whole architecture thing for olympus and she’ll just walk past and slap his ass and he’ll just continue his conversation with zeus without breaking eye contact, like he just doesn’t even acknowledge it and zeus is kind of thankful that percy didn’t take him up on the whole immortality thing bc that means that they will eventually die and he doesn’t have to deal with this shit for long

#percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #percy jackson and the olympians #heros of olympus #pjo #hoo #the entire time annabeth rebuilds olympus #her and percy make it their mission to make the gods suffer as much as possible #for Fun #poseidon isn’t that bothered tho tbh #he joins in but in the opposite direction #he makes annabeth and percy suffer #he asks for a few statues of him in ancient greek style #dicks out for the lads #percy wants to die #but occasionally he’ll join them in making zeus suffer #he is his little brother after all #it’s easy to piss off athena #all percy has to do is breathe in her direction #this got off track #ignore me

[yoan-le-grall]

#gif #anime #saint seiya #anime 80s #saori kido #saori #saori athena #athena #statue #antique #ruin #pegasus seiya #shun andromeda #cygnus hyoga #dragon shiryu #phoenix ikki #pose #80s aesthetic #80s

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

Roman statues of gods in Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

1: Marble statue of Aphrodite, Dresden-Capitoline style, a Roman copy made 140-160 AD after a Greek original 300-200 BC. 2. Marble statue of Antinous as Bacchus, 2nd century AD. 3. Roman copy of the Athena Parthenos. 4. Roman statue of a river deity (the Nile?), 2nd century AD.

#archaeology #napoli #naples #museum #statues #sculptures #art #history #art history #roman art #roman statue #culture #travel #travel photography #photography #museum photography #art photography #photographers on tumblr #art museum #greek gods #aphrodite #emperor hadrian #antinous #bacchus #athena deity #greek mythology

[destielmemenews]

source 1

source 2

#destiel meme #destiel meme news #world news #news #israel #roman statue #ancient roman art #vandalism #it was a bust of athena and a statue representing nemesis btw

[ophierian-vp]

#acodyssey #assassin's creed #assassin's creed odyssey #ubisoft #attika #gamingedit #statue of athena #acedit #gameplaydaily #dailyvideogames #virtual photography #photomode #Gaming Photography

[a-sculpture-a-day]

Athena, Attic workshop, c. 500 BC, marble, Acropolis Museum, Athens.

#sculpture #art history #athena #greek mythology #ancient greece #ancient greek art #mythology #mythological art #athens #acropolis museum #statue #marble #archaic period

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Statue of Athena in front of the Austrian Parliament Building, Vienna, AUSTRIA

#statue #estatua #athena #atenea #austrian #parliament #building #edificio #parlamento #austriaco #vienna #viena #austria #europe #europa

[posallys]

How do you feel about the implications from Medusa that Poseidon uh- kinda raped Sally? I'm personally staring in disbelief.

i 100% did not get that vibe at all? i rewatched the scene and i'm looking at the transcript and:

Athena was everything to me. I worshipped her, I prayed to her, I made offerings...she never answered. Not even an omen to suggest she appreciated my love. I wasn't like you, sweetheart. I was you. I would have worshipped her that way for a lifetime....in silence. But then one day, another god came, and he broke that silence. Your father. The Sea God told me that he loved me; I felt as though he saw me in a way I had never felt seen before. But then Athena declared that I had embarrassed her and I needed to be punished. Not him. Me. ... The gods want you to believe that, that they are infallible. But they only want what all bullies want. They want us to blame ourselves for their own shortcomings.

that's medusa's story monologue and the only thing there that implies the rape story is the "...i needed to be punished. not him. me" but nothing else she says implies that...and considering they went with a different iteration of the myth her, i don't think that's what she was implying in any way (and especially because it's disney). she was more so saying that athena should have punished poseidon if she was mad at anyone, because he esentially took the attention that medusa was willingly giving to athena, and that's why athena was mad. in this case, athena's shortcoming was not accepting the love medusa gave her willingly, and then getting angry and punishing medusa when she placed it somewhere else.

You're mother and I, we're like sisters in a way. Targeted by the same monster. So I find myself feeling protective of you. A monster? My mom never talked about my dad that way.

Even here, any implication of that you could gather is in the "targeted by the same monster" which. i don't think is what we're supposed to gather, especially with the line percy says. because he's right. if that's what happened, then sally wouldn't have talked about poseidon the way she did; she wouldn't have been crying in the car at montauk; she wouldn't be wearing the matching pearl necklace. i think, in this iteration, what medusa meant by monster is a god. her whole thing here is trying to convince the trio that the gods are the real monsters because they don't care about what happens to anyone other than themselves

and then there's this line

And you, you could have shown your father what it means to stand up for someone you love.

she's saying that poseidon should've stood up for her because he said he loved her...but he didn't, and let her take the punishment---which, yeah, it's completely shitty that poseidon would've just let that happen to medusa, but it doesn't lend itself to thinking that he raped sally in the context of the show. like at all.

the whole medusa interaction is her trying to teach the gods a lesson---that they shouldn't be above everyone just because they're gods, that the trio just sees monsters where they should maybe see people with a story, people that their parents made that way, people they shouldn't hate just because they're told to, because if they do then they're no better than their parents. i think the show is really playing into the whole "the gods are shitty" thing that luke has going on (which i kind of really enjoy im ngl....im SO interested to see it if we get to tlo) and not making them out to be these perfect beings, because they're not. they're corrupt and shitty, but unfortunately they're better than the alternative. and medusa is simply pointing out that just because someone is a monster doesn't mean they're a monster, and just because someone is a god doesn't mean they're good (@ sally in ep 1).

#uh maybe i completely misinterpreted all of this but??? i watched it multiple times and I still don't get it #like it seems they put specific words and phrases in there to make it known that that's exactly what DIDN'T happen. #even in the books they never used that version of the myth #they used the one where Poseidon and medusa got it on in athena's temple and that's why athena cursed her #which both ways we end up with medusa's story being the same #except in the book she wanted to kill annabeth and keep percy as a statue because she was still 'sweet on [his] dad' #so they really only changed the parts necessary for medusa to make the point about the gods not being inherently good #which obviously show percy is already on that page because well...all of episode 2