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- proper noun An
epithet of various Greekgoddesses , most commonlyAthena .
Etymologies
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The name was in all probability not derived from the Parthenos, but rather the statue was named from the _Parthenon_ after the latter appellation had been extended to the whole building, for there is no evidence that the great statue was called Parthenos from the first.
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This rocky hill, the historic heart of the city, featured the then new temple of Athena Parthenos, today known as the Parthenon.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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This rocky hill, the historic heart of the city, featured the then new temple of Athena Parthenos, today known as the Parthenon.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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It was the early image of Athena, not the Athena Parthenos by Phidias, that was annually washed in the sea, and for which the peplos was woven by the chosen women of Athens.
Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Ernest Arthur Gardner
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Those inscriptions therefore prove that the Parthenos stood in the
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Parthenos, but why it was so named we do not know.
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Parthenos, the virgin, thirty-nine feet high, the flesh parts being in ivory and the garments of fine gold.
A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel S. G. Bayne
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In Epiphanius (Haer., xxvi, 1) and Philastrius (Haer., xxxiii) Parthenos (Barbelos) seems identical with Noria, whoplays a great role as wife either of Noe or of Seth.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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She is also known by the names Pallas, Parthenos, Tritonia, and Glaucopis.
Africa and African Methodism. Alfred Lee Ridgel 1896
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Sofia - Yoshimi Iwasaki (岩崎良美) (in Lesbos, Parthenos)
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