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    The document summarizes the Three Goddesses sculpture found on the east pediment of the Parthenon in Athens. It identifies the figures as most likely being Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite. Hestia is described as the goddess of the hearth. Dione is the mother of Aphrodite and a female version of Zeus. Aphrodite is the goddess of love whose power is exemplified in the Judgment of Paris myth. The sculpture is an important surviving work that depicts important Greek goddesses and myths.

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    The document summarizes the Three Goddesses sculpture found on the east pediment of the Parthenon in Athens. It identifies the figures as most likely being Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite. Hestia is described as the goddess of the hearth. Dione is the mother of Aphrodite and a female version of Zeus. Aphrodite is the goddess of love whose power is exemplified in the Judgment of Paris myth. The sculpture is an important surviving work that depicts important Greek goddesses and myths.

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    The document summarizes the Three Goddesses sculpture found on the east pediment of the Parthenon in Athens. It identifies the figures as most likely being Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite. Hestia is described as the goddess of the hearth. Dione is the mother of Aphrodite and a female version of Zeus. Aphrodite is the goddess of love whose power is exemplified in the Judgment of Paris myth. The sculpture is an important surviving work that depicts important Greek goddesses and myths.

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    Three Goddess

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    The document summarizes the Three Goddesses sculpture found on the east pediment of the Parthenon in Athens. It identifies the figures as most likely being Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite. Hestia is described as the goddess of the hearth. Dione is the mother of Aphrodite and a female version of Zeus. Aphrodite is the goddess of love whose power is exemplified in the Judgment of Paris myth. The sculpture is an important surviving work that depicts important Greek goddesses and myths.

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    Stockton 1 The sculpture The Three Goddess is found in the east pediment of the Parthenon.

    The Parthenon a temple dedicated after Athena the Greek goddess. The Parthenon got its name from one of the epithets of the goddess Parthenos and depicts many important Athenian myths including the contest between Athena and Poseidon and Athenas birth. All the sculpture reliefs in the Parthenon tell storys about the people of Athens and there relationship with the Gods. Unfortunately the East Pediment in which the Three Goddesses lye is in very poor shape. Due its poor shape the identification of the characters is hard to determine. They have been identified as many different things but the most accepted identification of the Three Goddesses is Hestia (goddess of home and hearth), Dione (mother of Aphrodite), and Aphrodite (goddess of sexual love). Hestia the goddess of home and hearth is thought to be the seated Goddess on the far left. The myth goes that Hestia was the first born child of the titan Kronos and his wife Rhea. At birth Hestia was swallowed by her father along with her siblings. Zeus discovered this and forced Kronos to throw up Hestia and her five siblings. As a young woman the Gods Apollo and Poseidon fought for her hand in marriage Hetia refusing both of them asked Zeus if she could remain a virgin forever and that is how she came to be the goddess hearth. Dione the earth goddess is though to be the daughter of Aphrodite. Dione is also thought to be the female version of Zeus. In Homers the Iliad Aphrodite goes to Diones side after she has been wounded in battle while protecting her son Aeneas. After the Iliad Aphrodite is often reffered to as Dionaea and even sometimes Dione Besides this little is known about Dione the goddess and titan who is thought to be the goddess in the middle of this sculpture holding her daughter Aphrodite.

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    Aphrodite the daughter of Dione and Zeus is the goddess farthest to the right in the Three Goddess sculpture on the East Pediment of the Parthenon. Aphrodite the goddess of love is the daughter of Zeus and the titian goddess Dione. Aphrodite is a goddess with a unique power which is unlike any of the other Gods. The most famouse portral of Aphrodites power is exhibited in the Judgment of Paris. This Greek myth begins at marriage of Peleus and Thetis. At the wedding when Eris (Strife) threw a golden apple into the midst of the guests. The apple had an inscription which said for the fairest this immediately sparked an argument between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, each of the three goddess believed that they were the fairest so the apple must belong to them. After arguing among themselves for a while they agreed that Paris, a Trojan prince, would settle there dispute. All three goddesses tried to bribe Paris but it was Aphrodite who promised him Helen the most beautiful woman on Earth as his wife who Paris chose. So Paris awarded the apple to Aphrodite and proceeded to abduct Helen who was married to Menelaus, the ruler of Sparta. Off course these events are what brought to pass Trojan War and showed how much power Aphrodite had over important events in mythological history. Together these three goddess make a beautiful and interesting piece. Despite the debate among who they are supposed to represent they are a very important piece from the Parthenon. However they are this is a beautiful sculpture which will be preserved throughout history as an important work of art. The beautiful wet draper used and stylized figures make a key element to Greeces history. The shape of the sculpture the Three Goddess is shaped perfectly to fit the East pediment of the Parthenon perfectly.

    Stockton 3 Today it is one of the few sculptures that survived from the East Pediment making it even more important.

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