The 1st-century C.E. sculpture of the Greek goddess was ... able to study the statue of Athena closely and interpret it from many perspectives, including those of art history, restoration ...

rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek, and therefore were familiar with the Latin names of deities,” Manchester tells Elena Goukassian of the Art Newspaper.

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek ... Athena rather than Minerva—the ancient Roman equivalent of the Olympian—Manchester tells The Art ...

rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek, and therefore were familiar with the Latin names of deities,” Manchester tells Elena Goukassian of the Art Newspaper.