-
suggested that the
Athena Promachos may have been a cult statue. For a long time
there was
speculation if the
Athena Promachos even existed,
however most...
- (singular:
Promachos; Gr****: πρόμαχος) were the men
fighting in the
first rank of the phalanx. The word can also be used as an
adjective as in "
promachos line"...
-
warrior goddess, and was
believed to lead
soldiers into
battle as
Athena Promachos. Her main
festival in
Athens was the Panathenaia,
which was celebrated...
- Acropolis,
namely the
Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon, and the
Athena Promachos, a
colossal bronze which stood between it and the Propylaea, a monumental...
- but
whose only
result was the
destruction of the
great statue of
Athena Promachos, the work of Phidias,
which stood in the prin****l
forum facing west....
- sanctuary.
Behind the Propylaea, Phidias'
gigantic bronze statue of
Athena Promachos ("Athena who
fights in the
front line"),
built between 450 BC and 448...
- his
Athena Parthenos (438), the cult
image of the Parthenon, and
Athena Promachos, a
colossal bronze figure that
stood next to the Parthenon; all of these...
-
Peisistratos family.
During his term as archon, he set up the
statue of
Athena Promachos (πρὀμαχος) in
Athens and
oversaw a
reorganization of the
Panathenaia festival...
-
protects the city as polias,
oversees handicrafts as ergane,
joins battle as
promachos and
grants victory as nike." Alternatively, the
epithet may
identify a...
- (ram-bearer) who was
related to the
festival and the
second of
Hermes promachos (champion) At
Coroneia there was a
sunctuary of
Hermes epimelios(keeper...
