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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2009-12-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-e1a1eea833e94fff815bc2fd53e8c52c2023-02-09T16:33:09ZfraPresses universitaires du MidiPallas0031-03872272-76392009-12-018117919010.4000/pallas.6721Athéna et son doubleFrançoise LétoublonAthena’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.http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/6721Palladiondoublestatuesubstituteto dupetès palladionAthena |
| spellingShingle | Françoise Létoublon Athéna et son double Pallas Palladion double statue substitute to dupetès palladion Athena |
| title | Athéna et son double |
| title_full | Athéna et son double |
| title_fullStr | Athéna et son double |
| title_full_unstemmed | Athéna et son double |
| title_short | Athéna et son double |
| title_sort | athena et son double |
| topic | Palladion double statue substitute to dupetès palladion Athena |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/6721 |
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