Athenian Acropolis from southeast, view of East Cave and South Slope. (illustration credit ill.133)
Limestone snake from Bluebeard Temple pediment (Hekatompedon?), Athenian Acropolis. © Acropolis Museum (illustration credit ill.134)
Hypothetical visualization of Archaic Acropolis with Hekatompedon at south (above) and Old Athena Temple at north (below). D. Tsalkanis (illustration credit ill.135)
Bluebeard monster, Bluebeard Temple pediment (Hekatompedon?), Athenian Acropolis. © Acropolis Museum (illustration credit ill.136)
Zeus battling Typhon, Chalkidean hydria. Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlung 596 (illustration credit ill.137)
Raking cornice with lotus flowers, Bluebeard Temple pediment (Hekatompedon?), Athenian Acropolis. © Acropolis Museum (illustration credit ill.138)
Herakles wrestling Triton, Bluebeard Temple pediment (Hekatompedon?), Athenian Acropolis. © Acropolis Museum (illustration credit ill.139)
Birth of Athena, east pediment, Parthenon. (illustration credit ill.140)
Contest of Athena and Poseidon, west pediment, Parthenon. (illustration credit ill.141)
Maiden basket bearer leads sacrificial procession toward Athena’s altar at far left, behind which Athena and her priestess stand, as male worshipper approaches. Attic black-figure cup, ca. 550 B.C. Private collection (illustration credit ill.142)
Akanthos finial akroterion, Parthenon. © Acropolis Museum (illustration credit ill.143)
Life-size replica of Pheidias’s statue of Athena Parthenos by A. LeQuire, Centennial Park Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee. (illustration credit ill.144)
Processional route along the Panathenaic Way from the Kerameikos to the Acropolis. (illustration credit ill.145)
Owl perched upon altar as male worshipper approaches; sheep and bull await sacrifice, black-figure hydria. Uppsala University Antikensammlung 352 (illustration credit ill.146)
Pheidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to His Friends, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1868. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery © Birmingham Museums Trust (illustration credit ill.147)
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The Parthenon Enigma Page 66
