“Now, scholars, students ... From March 15, “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection” at the Art Institute of Chicago will array the vast collection amassed ...

With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a remarkable ...

As to why the sculpture is known as Athena rather than Minerva—the ancient Roman equivalent of the Olympian—Manchester tells The Art Newspaper that it was, in fact, originally called Minerva.