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Рабаджиев, К. - Фризът На Партенона
Рабаджиев, К. - Фризът На Партенона
ДАР ЗА БОГИНЯТА
Костадин Рабаджиев,
СУ „Св. Климент Охридски“
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М. Робертсън споменава за добра видимост, когато при ремонтни дейности птерата е била пок-
рита (по: Osborne 1987: 98-99).
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Според Н. Робертсън победата на боговете, сред тях и Атина, над гигантите е първоосновата на
Панатенйския празник (Robertson 1996: 56).
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Платон говори за статуи (agalmata - украшения), които издигаме на невидимите богове и които
почитаме, и въпреки че са безжизнени, ние вярваме, че живите богове са благосклонни и бла-
годарни на нас за подарените техни изображения (Plat. Leg. 2.931a).
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БИБЛИОГРАФИЯ:
СПИСЪК НА ОБРАЗИТЕ:
Kostadin Rabadjiev
St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
The paper concerns the inner Ionian frieze of the Parthenon and the probability
that it was almost invisible for the worshippers to discuss its iconography in a way the
modern scientists do. My grounds for this are:
– (1) its remote position – hidden up there behind the Dorian front elevation,
hardly distinguished between the columns of the colonnade;
– (2) the acute angle from which it is accessible for observation (fig. 2);
– and (3) – the darkness that surrounded it behind temple entablature when the
roof covered the ptera.
The reason for its situation there is discussed and surely it’s not the ambition of
the Athenian governing body to demonstrate prestige in the temple, overcrowded with
plastic figures, as some has proposed. My idea is to reveal it as a votive donation to the
Goddess, as the whole temple was (there are no traces of religious activity concerned
with it). Thus I try to explain the two innovations that Pheidias made – the huge statue
inside with a height of about 11.5 m/ 38 feet, and the second, Ionian frieze at a height of
12.20 m/ 40 feet. In such a way the figural frieze is just at the height of statue’s eyes
(fig. 7) and surely the designer intended that. Thus we can understand why the proces-
sion of Panathenaia, as it is most probably interpreted, was on a temple that was not
concerned with the Athenian festival, and the function of the frieze was to present the
gratitude of the Athenians to their protector, the city–goddess Athena Polias (see the
decoration of the temple and the statue itself), in a way they did on the festival always at
her look.