Author: A. Bravi

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This essay aims to provide a new interpretation of a group of bronze statues that was displayed on the Acropolis in Athens, described by Pausanias as a depiction of the goddess Athena and the Silenus Marsyas, intent on grasping the auloi “that the goddess wanted thrown away”. The proposed interpretation tends to emphasise how the novelty of Myron’s techne is revealed in the expressive complementarity of the work to its topographical context, in the semantics arising from the relationship between the language of forms and the monumental and figurative landscape of which the work is a part.