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Anyone know where the column is?
Athens, the Academy.
I think it's a rather poor Apollo. Not in the same room as the Belvedere
Apollo;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Belvedere
Mind you, Michelangelo's David puts both in the shade;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)
Ed
Thank-you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Athens_(modern)
I think I prefer the Athena on the other column. I grew up with our UK's
Britannia as an image, and found out late in life that the warrior
maiden ran all through western history; not least in Wagner's Ring Cycle as
Brünnhilde the Valkyrie.
Ed
For a society that kept its women under wraps, in the back rooms with
the children and slaves, where did their patron goddess come from?
Surely not from Sparta, where the women were far more enfranchised!
But I have a memory ingrained from some ancient reading, about sailors
rounding cape Sounion to Athens' south, and being guided in by the sun
gleaming off Athena's shield on the Acropolis;
https://bit.ly/3n2HcQA
And a thought occurs to me about when Spartan hoplite armies came
marching into Attica up through the Corinthian isthmus, bent on
destruction of an enemy. Did they see Athena standing like a front-line
soldier, menacingly and rather beautifully, up on the high rock? And did
some think "Blimey! Let's go back and get the corn in?"
Ed