Athéna et son double
Athena’s xoanon called Palladion is likely to have played an important part in the epic Cycle, possibly with the magic character of a protective talisman. Originally, there seems to have been a « heaven-sent » or « sent by Zeus » statue, dupertes palladion, perhaps a traditional formula of the Cycle...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Pallas |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/6721 |
| Summary: | Athena’s xoanon called Palladion is likely to have played an important part in the epic Cycle, possibly with the magic character of a protective talisman. Originally, there seems to have been a « heaven-sent » or « sent by Zeus » statue, dupertes palladion, perhaps a traditional formula of the Cycle. If, for Apollodore, the Palladion’s fall dates from Ilos and is therefore connected up with the eponym city, the story presented by Denys of Halicarnassus seems more complex and splits in two the palladion, the first counterpart already existing, according to him, in the time of Dardanos. The Library explains the « birth » of the statue by the friendship and rivalry between Athena and a young girl called Pallas, a human double of the godess, a substitute whom she arrayed with the aegis responsible for her death and to whom she gave her attributes. Ulysses and Diomeda’s expedition shows another instance of duality with the two abductors and the disturbing detail about Ulysses’ duplicity. Quintus of Smyrna locates the episode in a prediction ascribed to fate and seems to avoid the word Palladion, which could be explained on account of a taboo. |
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| ISSN: | 0031-0387 2272-7639 |