This little olivewood statue eventually inhabited the Erechtheum, the classical temple of Athena Polias across from the Parthenon. But the most glorious image of Athena, the one that expressed the ...

(The word parthenon in its Greek form means "of the virgins.") A similar cult of girls lived at the temple of Athena Polias, "Athena of the City." The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium ...