A Cape Town Lion’s Head tagged image from photographer – Egisto Sani as published on Flickr.
Athena is about to leave – II
Image by Egisto Sani
Athena, holding the reins with her hands, is getting on a chariot drawn by four horses. Her spear is resting inside the chariot. The goddess is wearing an Attic fashioned helmet with high crest, the scaled aegis decorated with heads of serpents and a long himation.
Alongside of her, partially hidden by the horses, is Heracles represented, according to the classical iconography, wearing a lion’s skin knotted on his chest and armed with a club. In front of the chariot, out of the photo, is Hermes.
Attic black-figured amphora
Amphora B
Made in Athens
About 550-500 BC
Bologna, Archaeological Museum
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Fun Western Cape Fact: Cape Town has a ‘second New Year’ – Every year at the 2nd of January as many as 13,000 minstrels take to the streets garbed in bright colours, either carrying colourful umbrellas or playing an array of musical instruments. The minstrels are self organised into klopse (“clubs” in Kaaps Afrikaans, but more accurately translated as troupes in English). The Kaapse Klopse (or simply ‘Klopse’), as it is called, is also referred to as the Tweede Nuwe Jaar (meaning ‘second New Year’).
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