While we went to a trip to the Metropolitan museum of art this May 6, 2017, some of the statue that I found interesting was the first statue when we entry to the museum. This status is the Marble statue of Athena Parthenos, Greek Hellenistic period, c,a 170 after the mid 5th century , chryselephantine cult statue of Athena Parthenos by Pheidias in Athens. The cult statue of Athena in the Parthenonn at Athens was still standing while the Hellenistic kingdom of Pergamon was flourishing. Moreover, the ties between the two centers were extensive.

The Athena here, presented as the goddess of knowledge and the arts, dominated Pergamons famous library. The image is smaller and shows modifications that because of its fragments condition, can only partly be identified as deliberate. The Pergamene statue lacks the sphinx, winged horses and other attributes of the original Athena’s helmet, as well as the protective snake curled within her shield. The back of the Pergamene statue is cursorily carved and only one block of its base survives. It preserves part of the relief that decorated the base of Pheidias’s statue and illustrated the birth of Pandora, the creation myth of the first woman on earth, all endowed by the gods as her name suggests. The Attalid kings admired Classical painting and sculpture, and this impressive Athena is the best-known example of Pergamene Classicism.