Athena and Marsyas. Roman, 1st century CE. Vatican Museums. “This group represents a mast
Athena and Marsyas. Roman, 1st century CE. Vatican Museums. “This group represents a masterpiece by Myron, now lost, which showed the goddess Athena and the Silenus, Marsyas. The myth relates how Athena, having invented the double flute, the aulòs, throws it to the ground in horror because in playing it her face became distorted. Marsyas, attracted by the wonderful sound, tries to take the instrument. The statue of Marsyas dates from the first half of the 1st century A.D. and was found on the Esquiline Hill in 1823. Alongside it is a plaster cast of the Lancellotti Athena used in the mid-19th century to reconstruct the group statue by Myron which existed around 460 B.C., but which was known only from depictions on coins and reliefs, and from literary sources.” -- source link
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