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- 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"...
- 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....
- Acropolis, namely the Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon, and the Athena Promachos, a colossal bronze which stood between it and the Propylaea, a monumental...
- warrior goddess, and was believed to lead soldiers into battle as Athena Promachos. Her main festival in Athens was the Panathenaia, which was celebrated...
- sanctuary. Behind the Propylaea, Phidias' gigantic bronze statue of Athena Promachos ("Athena who fights in the front line"), built between 450 BC and 448...
- protects the city as polias, oversees handicrafts as ergane, joins battle as promachos and grants victory as nike." Alternatively, the epithet may identify a...
- 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...
- (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...
- the British Museum Sculpture Athena Parthenos Parthenon Frieze Athena Promachos Metopes of the Parthenon Pediments of the Parthenon Korai of the Acropolis...