ABSTRACT
It is generally accepted that the subject of the Parthenon frieze is broadly the Greater Panathenaic procession.1 The East frieze’s central scene depicts the Olympian deities attending a culminating ceremony, while the other three sides carry some of the major events in the procession, though Boardman2
adds the idea that the equestrians there comprise the 192 Marathon heroes about to be welcomed by the gods on the east.
