hildegardavon:ganymedesrocks AthenaHead of Athena Lemnia, called Palagi head; Roman copy from a scul
hildegardavon:ganymedesrocks AthenaHead of Athena Lemnia, called Palagi head; Roman copy from a sculpture of Phidias. It is attributed to a Greek sculptor active in the Augustan age. Archaeological Museum of BolognaThe Lemnian Athena, or Athena Lemnia, was a classical Greek statue of the goddess Athena. According to Pausanias (1.28.2), the original bronze was created by Phidias circa 450/440 BCE, for Athenians living on Lemnos to dedicate on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. -- source link