Talk:Athena Parthenos

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Contents 1 Place of Worship? 2 Dollar value 3 Original 4 lead 5 Image copyright problem with Image:AthenaAlanpainting.jpg

[edit] Place of Worship?

Regarding "The reproduced Athena Parthenos gives visitors the impression that they truly are inside an ancient place of worship."

While a temple in honor of Athena, scholars do not consider the Parthenon to be a "place of worship," or the large Athena to be an object of worship. Rather, the people of Athens would congregate between the Erechtheum and the Parthenon, and the small, wooden statue, Athena Polias was the object of worship. Very seldom would anyone go inside the Parthenon and actually see the large Athena. 2KT (talk) 01:00, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dollar value

Does anyone have any information on how much the gilding and other gold on the statue is worth (in dollar values)? I realize the price of gold isn't always the same, but perhaps the dollar value for a specific year (like 1990) would be a nice bit of trivia to add...

At today's $825/oz, and her estimated 2,500 lbs of gold, that makes her value in today's dollars $33 million. 2KT (talk) 01:05, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Original

This article needs more on the original statue. The whole article is about the modern replica. --JW1805 (Talk) 04:28, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

So far the only editors who have worked on this article (besides yourself) reside in Nashville, so that would explain the bias. It's not necessarily that we favor the Nashville version, only that we have far more access to information about it. Kaldari 05:39, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] lead

The lead said that the parthenon was named after the statue. That is not true, this name is an epithet of Athena anyway. I thought that quality of Athena was what the parthenon was named after, but according to the article parthenon the origin of that name is unknown. But certainly the parthenon is not named after the statue, which is named after her, much as a statue 'stinky fred' might be modelled on a bloke called 'stinky fred', but if the surrounding environment is known as "stinky" it may not be for the same reason. Merkinsmum 15:31, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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