The Goddess Remerges

The life-sized marble statues of Athena and Hera, Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, date to between the second and fourth centuries Standing six feet high with their bases, the works were discovered Tuesday by a team of Italian and Greek archaeologists excavating the ruined theater of Gortyn, about 27 miles south of Iraklion in central Crete. The goddesses were toppled from their plinths by a powerful earthquake around A.D. 367 that destroyed the theater and much of the town. A sign of the times?