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Epithet of the goddess Athena signifying her as a virgin, untouched by life temptations. All those who attempted to insult her purity were severely punished. To honour her, the Athenians built on the Acropolis the Parthenon which housed the famous - but today lost - chryselephantine statue of the armoured Athena Parthenos, work of the sculptor Pheidias.