The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture & civilisation (1911)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933 · Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 187
champion and protectressof the city. Athena Polias is her fitting title. Pheidiasidealised this type in his Athena Promachos. But it does notseem to be very ancient. Probably Athens, like Troy, hadpossessed an earlier seated Pallas, upon whose knees thewomen laid their embroidered peplos. Nothing… … English Photo Co., Athens Plate XXVI. ATHENA POLIAS: BRONZE THE AGES OF TRANSITION civic worship of an idealised type, that the great vogue of theVirgin began on the Acropolis. , Tyranny and Culture All this time art has been slowly reviving. Lyric poetryand music had found a patroness in the…
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