Athena in the Megarian Treasury Pediment

Athena in the Megarian Treasury Pediment
Pediment of the Megarian treasury at Olympia. After Bol and Herrmann. About 510-500 BCE. Width 5.95 m, Height 0.85 m. Olympia.

• Gigantomachy.
• At the center Zeus, to the left Athena and Poseidon (crushing a giant with a rock, the island Nisyros); to the right Hercules and Ares (?); each deity with a giant foe and with serpentine familiars of the giants in the corners (or, at the left, Poseidon's sea monster).

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