Athena Line Art

Athena Line ArtA minimalist single line drawing of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, craft, and strategic warfare. The whole figure is carried in a single continuous line helmet, profile, the lift of a spear. Athena was born, in the oldest version of the myth, fully armoured from the forehead of Zeus after he swallowed her pregnant mother Metis. She was the patron deity of Athens (the city takes its name from her, or she takes hers from it the order was already

resumed his reign in Sparta

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brute side of warfare rather than its strategic discipline

The garden lay beyond the ocean in the far west

and again in Renaissance and Neoclassical sculpture of the ruler

stripped to a single taut pose

A print of Hercules and the Lion — the hero wrestling the Nemean Lion in the first of his Twelve Labours

A print of Hercules and the Lion — a second treatment of the hero wrestling the Nemean Lion in the first of his Twelve Labours

Years later Paris killed Achilles with an arrow to the heel

the figure at the top has been a bronze of Saint Peter

was closely associated with the god of music

turned inward: a break with the frontal heroic poses of the earlier Greek canon