Word: athena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high dome. This, they recognized, was a building whose closed outer face deliberately belied the soaring drama of its interior. "It's like the Vati can," exclaimed one painter, staring up at the great dome. "You would need a piece of sculpture the size of the old Athena in the Parthenon for this place," worried Sculptor William Zorach. "Even when he made a mistake, he made a big one," opined Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. But, looking across the well at the opening show of 134 paintings and sculptures selected from the 2,500-odd works in the Guggenheim collection, most...
...secret is more closely related to biochemistry or to mumbo-jumbo, the bird man is in interesting company: the sixth labor of Hercules was to rid the Arcadian city of Stymphalus of its rasping birds. "When Hercules was at a loss how to drive the birds away," writes Apollodorus, "Athena gave him brazen castanets ... By clashing these, he scared the birds. They could not abide the sound...
Once a Roman shop in the ancient city of Sardis, the baptistry is dominated by two crosses which cover earlier pagan inscriptions on a marble basin. The buildings also contained a marble baptismal font, coins from the Byzantine and Roman Empires, and a torso of Athena...
...decorate the 25 rooms of the hunting lodge, Rubens picked most of his themes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, including the famed story of the weaving match between Pallas Athena and Arachne. Bested in the contest, the goddess Athena was doubly angry because mortal Arachne dared to weave scenes of the scandalous loves of the gods (Rubens' sketch shows a scene from the Rape of Europa). Athena ripped the design to shreds, turned on Arachne, who was trying to hang herself in despair, and metamorphosed her into a spider (thus giving spiders their zoological classification: Arachnida...
...simply wrote down what the man said. What resulted was that great Irish art form known as conversation, which, at its best, is always above and beyond the call of truth. In his later stories, McNulty often slipped into the habit of giving Mat his real name-Timothy Athena Costello, proprietor of Costello's Restaurant, Third Avenue at 44th...