Art: Athena Parthenos

This issue’s cover features a statue known as the Varvakeion Athena. The surviving copy, held in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, is a Roman copy of a Greek original. This photograph is of a plaster copy held in the Classical Art Museum of Sapienza University in Rome. Cheryl took the photo while attending a conference at the university in February.

A larger version of the photo is available below.