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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Greek goddesses. (search)
. Quintilian says of Phidias's lost statue of Athena that its beauty seems to have added reverence more deceptive Latin namesby Artemis or Diana, Athena or Minerva, Aphrodite or Venus, Hera or Juno, s moment of serene self-poise, that the virgin Athena ranks in some respects at the head of all the ome. Of all conceptions of woman ever framed, Athena most combines strength and loveliness. She haermodorus fearlessly declares. The busts of Athena seem always grave and sweet; never domineerings it is impossible to mistake a head of Hera. Athena commands like a princess; Hera, like a queen. nhood, active or contemplative, in Artemis and Athena. But besides these five attitudes of woman and refused to omit these slight excesses. So Athena, the virgin, must be a shade too cold, and Aphis; in maiden meditation, fancy free, she was Athena; when fancy-bound, she was Aphrodite; when her the Acropolis, and wove the sacred garment of Athena, themselves robed in white, with ornaments of [5 more...]