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Data: 40x 30 inch. (102x 76.5 cm.) From Febuary 1999 to August 1999 hours spent working: 284 hrs & 40 mins. Human enslavement of animals commenced during the Neolithic Revolution. And the condition of animals under human hands progressively worsened as human civilization "progressed". Hence Goddess Athena is shown here appearing to liberate the animals enslaved in human civilization. The scene, the example of civilization chosen here, is classical China, the Warring-states period, 230 BC. (Although any other example of civilization -- Greek, Mesopotamian, Egyptian -- would do just as well.) In the capital of kingdom Ch'in, the largest state in the area, Goddess Athena appears before the palatial court of the king.