PLATE XL
Athene
To understand this statue fully one must restore to the right of it the remainder of the group to which it seems to have belonged; i.e. Marsyas drawing back from a pair of flutes lying on the ground before him. The goddess, a self-possessed and thoroughly maidenly figure, glancing indifferently toward the instruments, is about to turn away ro the left as though instinctively aware of her native superiority to the half-bestial creature near her. The Corinthian helmet, the crest of which is lost, here serves only as a means of identification. This statue is apparently a replica of the first century b.c. or a.d. of a bronze original by Myron (latter part of the fifth century b.c.), and is now in Frankfort (JHAI xii, Plate II).
