ENGL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Panathenaic Games, Graeae, Chryselephantine Sculpture
12 Feb 2019
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Names are deino (dread), enyo (horror), and pemphredo (alarm). Old from birth, but beautiful and swanlike. Know where to find the nymphs of the north whom perseus sought. Some stories have them tell perseus where medusa lives. The gorgons: their gaze turns people to stone. Goddess of war and wisdom, dangerous to people who compare themselves to here, strategies of war. Character and appearance: helper of heroes, olive tree, athenian coin, owl-eyed, snake fertility/chthonic, and patron of crafts. Thermopylae 480 bce; salamis 480 bce (xerxes led forces) Athena could inhabit the statue during the panathenaic festival.
