I designed The Athena Sculpture for Daejeon Expo Aquarim. Athenas Model size 75 cm and this is model of the orginal statue. Upon popular demand, I decided to produce 7 of the model of Athena. If you interested you can see the details from my instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CZcD0tytRfN/ My hometown is the city of Troy shaped by nature and history, so every work I produce carries the wisdom of the spirits of Troy. About Athena: or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most likely received her name. The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens is dedicated to her. Her major symbols include owls, olive trees, snakes, and the Gorgoneion. In art, she is generally depicted wearing a helmet and holding a spear. In Greek mythology, Athena was believed to have been born from the forehead of her father Zeus. In some versions of the story, Athena has no mother and is born from Zeus' forehead by parthenogenesis. In others, such as Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus swallows his consort Metis, who was pregnant with Athena; in this version, Athena is first born within Zeus and then escapes from his body through his forehead. In the founding myth of Athens, Athena bested Poseidon in a competition over patronage of the city by creating the first olive tree. She was known as Athena Parthenos "Athena the Virgin," but in one archaic Attic myth, the god Hephaestus tried and failed to rape her, resulting in Gaia giving birth to Erichthonius, an important Athenian founding hero. Athena was the patron goddess of heroic endeavor; she was believed to have aided the heroes Perseus, Heracles, Bellerophon, and Jason. Along with Aphrodite and Hera, Athena was one of the three goddesses whose feud resulted in the beginning of the Trojan War.
The first ceramic in history was produced in Anatolia, which is my homeland, around 6000 BC. So what makes ceramic still preferred today is that the pieces produced 8000 years ago are still intact. Unique handmade ceramic Trojan Horse from the land of where Trojan War has occurred. The Trojan War is the first east-west war in history, which took place 3200 years ago. Odysseus' idea of the Trojan Horse (a wooden horse) won the war for the Ancient Greek. The term "Trojan Horse" has come to refer to subversion introduced from the outsider. And this ceramic Trojan Horse art depiction is made in the land of where Trojan War occurred, also, Troya is within the borders of �?anakkale, the city where I live. Therefore, every piece of work we produce carries the traces of the labor and traditional wisdom of artists and masters in Troya. This is an indigenous art, designed as indigenous art of an horse shaped oil olive bottle however used as a decorative object (not a tableware). A ceramic masterpiece signed by ceramic artist �°hsan Ayata. Height: 39 cm / 15.3 inches Width: 31 cm / 12.2 inches Dept: 9 cm / 3.5 inches
