the one that expressed the power and wealth of Athens itself, was the Athena Parthenos, a colossal gold-and-ivory statue that Pheidias, supposedly the general overseer of the entire Periclean ...

When Erichthonius became an adult he cast out the sitting king of Athens and took the throne for himself. His first acts were to erect a wooden statue of Athena and to found the Panathenaia ...

depicting Athena, was issued by the tyrant Lachares in 296 BC to pay his troops during the siege of Athens by Demetrius "the besieger", king of Macedon. The colossal gold and ivory statue of the ...