In fifth-century Athens , Pandora made a prominent appearance in what , at first , appears an unexpected context , in a marble relief or bronze appliqués as a frieze along the base of the `` Athena Parthenos '' , the culminating experience on the Acropolis . Jeffrey M. Hurwit has interpreted her presence there as an `` anti-Athena . ''
In fifth-century Athens Pandora made a prominent appearance in what , at first , appears an unexpected context , in a marble relief or bronze appliqués as a frieze along the base of the `` Athena Parthenos '' the culminating experience on the Acropolis ; there Jeffrey M. Hurwit has interpreted her presence as an `` anti-Athena '' reinforcing civic ideologies of patriarchy and the `` highly gendered social and political realities of fifth-century Athens . ''