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5 Page Humanities 1090 Mythology Athena comparison Athena Piraeus 350 BC Classical Athena 1939 Paul Klee 10 "Athena was an active goddesses, aiding heroes and adventurers, who included Perseus, Hercules, Jason and Odysseus. Although she was a virgin, Athena did not hate the company of men, unlike Artemis. She enjoyed the bravery and daring of the battlefield but had no time for senseless slaughter, unlike the war god, Ares."38 You should have no difficulty recognizing the iconography in the classical Athena, the helmet, the Owl. Compare this with Klee's Athena. She has a classical nose, and of course the helmet. There is an Athena called Pania, which comes from her discovery of the flute. In Athens they called her Athena Ergane (Worker.) She was called Athena Aethyia (Gannet, a type of bird). This notable statue was discovered in 1959. Her Relaxed, gently turning, demeanor is associated with the sculptor Euphranor. Athena at the Forge of Vulcan Wedgwood - Black Basalt c. 1780 - Private collection 11 "Athena was loved by most everyone, and was a very loving person herself. But she loved everyone in the filial sense (like a sister), and was completely uninterested in sex. There were Gods who wanted to marry her, but she was completely turned off by the idea. Once, during the Trojan Athena War, had to ask Hephaestus (Vulcan) to make her a set of armor and weapons. She offered to pay him, but Hephaestus, recently divorced from Aphrodite, insisted that his only payment would be love. She completely missed the sexual innuendo and agreed."39 Athena Scorning the Advances of Hephaestus Paris Bordone Oil on canvas 1555-60 Kress Collection Museum of Art University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 12 When she came to Hephaestus' smithy to pick up her stuff, he came at her and tried to seal what he thought was their bargain. Obviously that didn't happen. Don't think too badly of Hephaestus though, it really wasn't all his fault. Poseidon had played a joke on him and told him that Athena was on her way to the smithy hoping to make violent love to him. Athena tried to run away from the unfortunate Hephaestus, but she didn't move quite fast enough and he ejaculated on her leg. The prominent representation of the bare thigh of Athena fits well into the mythological narrative. During the Renaissance, the story and image might have been interpreted as an allegory of the productive power of unrequited love. Bordone studied in Venice with Titian and later he became a rival of his master. In order to avoid this rivalry he left Venice and worked in several cities of northern Italy.

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