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<p>[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4663591, member: 51347"]I posted this before, but it is fun to see the dichotomy between Sparta and Athens, with the City of Sparta having Athena as their Patron Goddess.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am reading “The Spartans” by Paul Cartledge. He states that Taras was Sparta’s only colony (Italia - Magna Graeca, Tarantum). AND, that Athena was a very important Goddess to the Spartans. Sparta highly revered her, and she was the “Patron Goddess of Sparta”... page 56 and 58.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ergo, this is WHY Athena / Owl is on a SPARTA colony!</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2019-5-19_18-51-54-png.938104/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Calabria Tarentum / Taras AR Drachm 18mm 3.1g 3rd C BCE Athena Corinthian Scylla OWL olive TAP ZOP HN Italy 975 Vlasto 1052</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1150322[/ATTACH]</p><p>Temple of Athena Chalkioikos, Acropolis of Sparta</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b><u>Temple of Athena Chalkioikos</u></b></font></p><p>The temple of Athena Chalkioikos was designed by the architect Vathyklis from Magnesia. It is located to the top of the Spartan Acropolis and the north side of the theater. Interiors of the temple were adorned with copper sheets (from 6th B.C.) from which the temple derives its name (Copper = Chalkioikos). The Temple of Athena Chalkiikos had a bronze statuette of Athena, statue of Leonidas, statuette of a trumpeter, and a cult statue created and erected by a local man called Gitiadas.</p><p>Source: Archaeology of Myth: Sparta</p><p><a href="http://www.academicmentoronline.com/2017/05/archeology-myth-sparta/#:~:text=The%20temple%20of%20Athena%20Chalkioikos%20was%20designed%20by,cult%20statue%20created%20and%20erected%20by%20a%20" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.academicmentoronline.com/2017/05/archeology-myth-sparta/#:~:text=The%20temple%20of%20Athena%20Chalkioikos%20was%20designed%20by,cult%20statue%20created%20and%20erected%20by%20a%20" rel="nofollow">http://www.academicmentoronline.com/2017/05/archeology-myth-sparta/#:~:text=The temple of Athena Chalkioikos was designed by,cult statue created and erected by a </a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1150325[/ATTACH]</p><p>I always liked this "S"-Eating Grin on this life-size statue, possibly / thought to be King Leonidas, or a Hoplite. Excavated from the Acropolis area of Sparta in CE 1925.</p><p><br /></p><p>What a figure at Thermopylae.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4663591, member: 51347"]I posted this before, but it is fun to see the dichotomy between Sparta and Athens, with the City of Sparta having Athena as their Patron Goddess. I am reading “The Spartans” by Paul Cartledge. He states that Taras was Sparta’s only colony (Italia - Magna Graeca, Tarantum). AND, that Athena was a very important Goddess to the Spartans. Sparta highly revered her, and she was the “Patron Goddess of Sparta”... page 56 and 58. Ergo, this is WHY Athena / Owl is on a SPARTA colony! [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2019-5-19_18-51-54-png.938104/[/IMG] Calabria Tarentum / Taras AR Drachm 18mm 3.1g 3rd C BCE Athena Corinthian Scylla OWL olive TAP ZOP HN Italy 975 Vlasto 1052 [ATTACH=full]1150322[/ATTACH] Temple of Athena Chalkioikos, Acropolis of Sparta [SIZE=4][B][U]Temple of Athena Chalkioikos[/U][/B][/SIZE] The temple of Athena Chalkioikos was designed by the architect Vathyklis from Magnesia. It is located to the top of the Spartan Acropolis and the north side of the theater. Interiors of the temple were adorned with copper sheets (from 6th B.C.) from which the temple derives its name (Copper = Chalkioikos). The Temple of Athena Chalkiikos had a bronze statuette of Athena, statue of Leonidas, statuette of a trumpeter, and a cult statue created and erected by a local man called Gitiadas. Source: Archaeology of Myth: Sparta [URL='http://www.academicmentoronline.com/2017/05/archeology-myth-sparta/#:~:text=The%20temple%20of%20Athena%20Chalkioikos%20was%20designed%20by,cult%20statue%20created%20and%20erected%20by%20a%20']http://www.academicmentoronline.com/2017/05/archeology-myth-sparta/#:~:text=The temple of Athena Chalkioikos was designed by,cult statue created and erected by a [/URL] [ATTACH=full]1150325[/ATTACH] I always liked this "S"-Eating Grin on this life-size statue, possibly / thought to be King Leonidas, or a Hoplite. Excavated from the Acropolis area of Sparta in CE 1925. What a figure at Thermopylae.[/QUOTE]
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