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   Aegis

   Closeup of a plaster cast of a Roman sculpture of Athena wearing the scaly Aegis, Cast Gallery of the Faculty of Classics and Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge University. ... There is also the origin myth that represents the ægis as a fire-breathing chthonic monster similar to the Chimera, which was slain and flayed by Athena, who afterwards wore its skin as a cuirass (Diodorus Siculus iii. 70), or as a chlamys.
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   Athena

   "Athena, by the time she appears in art," Jane Ellen Harrison had remarked, "has completely shed her animal form, has reduced the shapes she once wore of snake and bird to attributes, but occasionally in black-figure vase-paintings she still appears with wings." ... ↑ Zeus is also "Aegis-bearing Zeus".
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   Aegis (comics)

   He wears the Aegis, a mystical breastplate worn by Zeus and Athena.
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   Athena (Saint Seiya)

   In it, Athena appears in her previous incarnation as an orphan called Sasha.
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   Lemnian Athena

   Athena wears an unusual, cross-slung aegis decorated with the Gorgon's head.
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   Black-figure pottery

   Athena wearing the aegis, Attic black-figured hydria by the potter Panphaios (signed) and the Euphiletos Painter, c. 540 BC.
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   Medusa

   The inclusion of Medusa in the center implies the protection of the goddess Athena, who wore the Gorgon's likeness on her aegis, as said above.
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   Gorgon

   The Gorgon wore a belt of serpents that intertwined as a clasp, confronting each other. ... Athena wears the ancient form of the Gorgon head on her aegis, as the huge serpent who guards the golden fleece regurgitates Jason; cup by Douris, Classical Greece, early fifth century BC - Musei Vaticani
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   Athena Promachos

   The Athena Promachos was one of Pheidias' earliest recorded works: it was placed in about 456 BCE. ... They show that she wore a belted garment and stretched forward her right hand on which a winged object can be seen.
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    Olympian Gods (DC Comics)

    Pallas Athena was born fully grown and fully armed from the brow of Zeus. ... (The bracelets are all that remained of Zeus' Aegis; this Aegis was made from the hide of Amalthea, the goat which reared him.)

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Aegis,
• Athena,
• Aegis (comics),
• Athena (Saint Seiya),
• Lemnian Athena,
• Black-figure pottery,
• Medusa,
• Gorgon,
• Athena Promachos,
• Olympian Gods (DC Comics)