Beautiful Evil
Pandora and the Athena Parthenos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4760950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey M Hurwit (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 171-186 |
| Publication date | 1995-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/506338 |
| OpenAlex | W2333400098 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The depiction of the Birth of Pandora on the base of the statue of Athena Parthenos has not received all the attention it deserves. This study attempts to place the meaning and function of the myth in the context of both the Parthenon sculptural program as a whole and the Athenian civic ideologies of patriarchy and autochthony. It suggests that the scene operated on several different levels (some of them mundane), but that the relationship of the mortal parthenos below to the divine Parthenos above was essentially one of ambiguity, even dissonance. Pandora may, in fact, have functioned as an "Anti-Athena," and the image of her creation may have reinforced the highly gendered social and political realities of fifth-century Athens
Ambiguity · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Depiction · Epistemology · Ideology · Literature · Meaning (existential · Mythology · Patriarchy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Statue · Classical Antiquity Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |