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Treasury of the SiphniansA small island with rich gold mines built an ostentatious treasury at Delphi.
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The temple featured caryatides for columns as in the Erechtheion in Athens. What survives (in the Delphi museum) is the pediment. |
At the top dead center of the pediment is this scene. Hercules and Apollo are fighting over the Delphic tripod. Athena (in the middle) is telling them to grow up. Or something. Artemis is behind Apollo offering support. |
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On the left is this group, which is not a sign that an Italian tour group came to Delphi 2500 years ago in a bus, but shows, rather, the assembly of the Gods watching the Trojan war. Left to right we have Area, Aphrodite, Artemis, and Apollo. |
The Gods are fighting the giants. Apollo and Artemis are on the left, with Artemis showing a muscular thigh. |
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| Last modified 6/13/09; original content © 2009 John P. Nordin |
