Athena and Hephaistos
Elgin Marbles. Athena and Hephaistos.
East Frieze V, 36-37
"This frieze forms a connected whole and represents, in low relief, the festive }. which ascended to the Acropolis at the end of the Panathenaea or the purpose of presenting to the Goddess a peplos, or robe, woven an embroidered by Athenian virgins. ... To the right appear Athena, unarmed but wearing the aegis with its border of serpents, Hephaestos, her rejected admirer, gallantly turned towards her ..."--Baedeker 1915. DSC_0609p1
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