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Athena Promachos

Athena Promachos

Bronze statue of Athena

Photo: Leo von Klenze · Commons · Public domain · Cropped & Resized

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The Athena Promachos was a colossal bronze statue of Athena sculpted by Phidias, which stood between the Propylaea and the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens. Athena was the tutelary deity of Athens and the goddess of wisdom and warriors. Pheidias also sculpted two other figures of Athena on the Acropolis, the huge gold and ivory ("chryselephantine") cult image of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon and the Lemnian Athena.

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Image: Leo von Klenze, Public domain · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0