A large break.
Birth of athena attic wine cup.
Athena stands upon the lap of zeus following her birth from his brow.
According to the greeks athena was born in this astonishing manner after her father zeus had swallowed her pregnant mother metis the goddess of wisdom.
Polyphemos is the central figure kneeling on one knee in a state of drunkenness.
Athena stands behind odysseus as his guardian.
Athena pouring wine to hercules cup by douris painter c.
The king of the gods is seated on a stool and holds a royal sceptre in his hand.
A pair of large eyes frames busts of the hero herakles and his patron goddess athena on one side of this black figure cup.
550 bce athena and votary by myson c.
Olive sprig to left.
490 470 bce hercules and the serpents with athena by berlin painter c.
The pair are flanked by the twin eileithyiae birth goddesses who act as midwives with raised arms.
Yet the greek economy unlike that of the.
Demeters stands to the right of zeus.
Attic black figure band cup c.
10 000 of the city s soldiers crushed the much larger persian army of darius the great.
The birth is depicted in great detail on the shoulder of this amphora.
Birth of athena by painter of berlin 1686 c.
Odysseus in the cave of polyphemos seven figures.
The birth of athena athena s birth zeus came to lust after metis and chased her in his direct way.
The main side of the cup depicts athena the greek warrior goddess confronting two partially hidden opponents.
Odysseus appears at right with an oinochoe containing more wine.
Work commenced on the first temple of athena parthenos on the acropolis.
Athena depicted as a child brandishes a spear and is equipped with a shield and a peaked helm.
The year 490 bc was a memorable one for the people of athens.
Helmeted bust of athena right a above θ h across fields standing right wings open tail left amphora in right.
Metis tried to escape going so far as to change her form many times.
And the modern marathon was born when a messenger with good news supposedly ran 26 miles to the city before dropping dead.
The goddess athena in full armour springs out of the head of an enthroned zeus.
She changed into various creatures such as hawks fish and serpents.
By having the two opponents take shelter behind them the unknown vase painter cleverly incorporated the large eyes which ornament both sides of the cup into the narrative.
In the 500s b c greek vase painters frequently placed eyes on cups perhaps because they were believed to be apotropaic that is they had the power to ward off evil or so that the cup would be transformed into a mask when a drinker raised it to.