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The Chigi Athena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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The Chigi Athena (Fig. 1 and Plate I.) or, to give it a better known name, the Dresden ‘archaistic’ Athena, is one of a class that has only recently come to its rights—the ‘archaistic’ statues. In them the old and the new are blended wihout either losing its identity, but the motive of the mixture has long been disputed; is it the new masquerading under a fictitious archaism, a Chatterton in marble, or is it an honest but not too precise transcription of the ancient archetype? The answer of modern archaeologists is in most cases for the honest transcript.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1912

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